tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post2542117703235306798..comments2024-01-09T17:38:35.707-05:00Comments on This Old State: No more White House endorsements from GreensboroUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-41449113722534515102009-03-05T20:54:00.000-05:002009-03-05T20:54:00.000-05:00It is the last chaos gold which make me very happy...It is the <A HREF="http://www.vir4u.com/product/Last_Chaos_gold.html" REL="nofollow">last chaos gold</A> which make me very happy these days, my brother says <A HREF="http://www.vir4u.com/product/Last_Chaos_gold.html" REL="nofollow">lastchaos gold</A> is his favorite games gold he likes, he usually buy some <A HREF="http://www.vir4u.com/product/Last_Chaos_gold.html" REL="nofollow">lastchaos money</A> to start his game and most of the time he will win the <A HREF="http://www.vir4u.com/product/Last_Chaos_gold.html" REL="nofollow">buy last chaos gold</A> back and give me some <A HREF="http://www.vir4u.com/product/Last_Chaos_gold.html" REL="nofollow">cheap lastchaos gold</A> to play the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22040291.post-68699384119161096542007-10-25T18:55:00.000-04:002007-10-25T18:55:00.000-04:00I view this as a further loss to the political and...I view this as a further loss to the political and journalistic independence of this region of the South. Over here in the Triangle, folks interested in the affairs of the Democratic Party, for example, whether at the local, state or national level, are being overwhelmed with pressures relayed to us in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill to view issues and national campaigns in this way or that, as dictated by political movers and shakers from New York to California.<BR/><BR/> When we had good and independent-minded newspapers from Virginia--our neighbors to the north, the land of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe-- coming out with strong and well articulated editorial endorsements in the presidential nomination races and general election campaigns, we could say to these national political and media operatives: look at what some of our esteemed newspapers in Norfolk, Roanoke and Greensboro are saying about the platform you are trying to force upon us.<BR/><BR/> Whether you would be inclined to support them or oppose them, with a John Edwards running for President in the Democratic primaries, or if an Elizabeth Dole were running in the Republican primaries, our academics, political activists and journalists could point out what viable North Carolina candidates are urging the political parties and the country to do rather than us simply always being on the receiving end of the latest push from the party congressional and senatorial campaigns or the latest politcal analysis in the national news media.<BR/><BR/> It's not a matter of the old 19th Century contest between "states rights" and the federal government; no, it's a need for people in the South and especially in Virginia and the Carolinas, to remind the national politicos and opinion-makers: we're just as much entitled to the constitutional and political prerogatives of U.S. citizens as people are in New York and California.<BR/><BR/> And even at the Charlotte Observer, which apparently takes pride in having totally separate executive leadership of the news and editorial departments, when you don't have that across-the-board leadership speaking for your newspaper, then "your people," i.e., people from the Charlotte region living and working anywhere in the Carolinas, inevitably get "pushed around" politically in places like Raleigh and the Triangle because nobody is worried about a good strong news story being backed up by coordinated editorial advocacy. Around here it's take a shot at a Charlotte or Mecklenburg person because the newspaper down there either won't find out about it or won't do anything if they do catch wind of it.<BR/><BR/> Landmark Newspapers, whose corporaste headquarters are located so close to the Yorktown site of the ultimate victory for American independence, has taken a big chuck of the vital upper Southern region of the Founding Era of the Republic out of the picture as far as weighing in on our quadrenniel presidential contests are concerned. If they had staged such a retreat 200 years ago, then perhaps neither Thomas Jefferson nor James Madison would have ever made it to the White House.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com