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midnightranter

Battle of Toledo

Mar 04, 2008 00:00

Toledo, Ohio. A town/city of about 300,000 (which is dropping) where both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spent part of the day. It's the fourth largest city in Ohio and the 57th largest city in the United States. It's on Lake Erie and the Maumee River, so it has served as a port in times past and is one of the largest railroad hubs in the country ( Read more... )

business, greed, big speeches, legislative, campaigning, religion, 2008 campaign, corruption

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how_i_lie March 4 2008, 05:54:46 UTC

I am very, very far away from being a resident of Ohio, but I don't see how this isn't a simple decision. Surely it's better to despair and win? Win in the sense of having a job, feeding your kids, getting healthcare of some description? It may not raise the roof of an auditorium, but all this hope and American Idol style fanaticism is going to feel a lot worse if it doesn't pay off. I seem to remember that '92 was going to be the year it all changed, a mini-revolution of sorts. And then Bill tried to do a whole lot of things going against the conventional Washington way and the US was left with stellar policies like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell ( ... )