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Nice call Matt!

Gosh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:38:56 -0400

Submitted by MattM on August 26, 2008 - 4:10pm.

Larry Kissell got lucky back in '06, a lot of Hayes supporters stayed home figuring he already had it locked up. They'll be out this year. Kissell will have to settle back into his real job and stop pretending like he can be a Congressman.

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Whoops, sorry to bump. Was looking for Matt's latest supporting that NFL guy, or maybe it was the DA that also passed.

A randomly selected housewife in the phonebook would be a better representative than Kissell.

Does the NRCC not have a phonebook?

Re: Biden: You gave Iraq 'fighting chance'

tangoz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:37:32 -0400

Didn't Biden proclaim at one time that we had lost in Iraq and it was time to divide it into 3 different countries?

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:17:33 -0400

I thought Fayetteville was in the Green Zone...

— RTB

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

j1c2kp — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:14:45 -0400

RTB you must have been typing this one in a hurry. Go back and read it again.

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

CitizenOpinionated — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:55:29 -0400

But why...President Obama did it and no one really cares?

Re: Biden to visit Fort Bragg

rmmlem — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:50:38 -0400

Hey Joe, If you take your daughter with you make sure you check her bags before going through security. Nose candy is not appreciated on base.

Re: Perdue will join Obama Friday

FFC1304 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:41:25 -0500

google chicagoteaparty

nationwidechicagoteaparty.com

Fayetteville having one,,,so is ASHEVILLE !! What about RAWLEIGH???

Re: Perdue will join Obama Friday

FFC1304 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:39:56 -0500

Will there be a CAMP LEJEUNE TEA PARTY to join all the other TEA PARTIES ACROSS AMERICA TOMORROW IN PROTEST of the 'stimilus'...

I hope they all realize that the rEVOLution is happening while they smile their evil smiles at the MARINES!!!

Re: Former Chapel Hiller at speech

FFC1304 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:05:33 -0500

Order several copies for family and friends...Great new movie!

'MEDIA MALPRACTICE'

http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com

Re: Former Chapel Hiller at speech

kttechwriter — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:52:38 -0500

This is "news". Good grief. Man, this is really reaching!

Re: Press Limitations in N.C.

Proctor — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:30:03 -0400

Journalists from other states ought to make sure they maintain their home-state connections while covering politics in North Carolina because the Democratic Party of this state has a sordid record of limitation of freedom of the press for writers who do not support the proper "ltef-liberal" wing of the national and state Democratic parties.

Around here in Raleigh and Durham, the sort-of-liberal wing of our Democratic Party loves to try to please the supposedly liberal branches of the national Democratic Party in Texas and in the Northeast and New England, even if it means limiting the publication of editorial essays in support of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue.

So the end result of our Democratic Party's meddling with constitutionally protected press liberties has resulted in a whole slew of newspaper editorials in favor of the Republican candidate for governor.

Although our own home state's Democratic Party deserves the major responsibility for this unhealthy state of literary and journalistic affairs, some of the "credit" must also go to certain Democratic Party organizations in the Northeast, which managed to convince our political, educational and journalistic establishment in the Triangle years ago that our own North Carolina writers should play a lot of second fiddle when it comes to writing about politics, education and government here in North Carolina.

The extent to which certain operatives of both the state and national Democratic parties will go to make life miserable personally for Tar Heel writers unwilling to follow this nebulous left-liberal party line in their own independent research and editorial work is one of the great untold stories in American journalism today.

Because certain outstanding journalists--such as David Brinkley, Charles Kuralt and Tom Wicker--went from their native North Carolina to important positions at leading national press organizations such as NBC, CBS and The New York Times, now the conventional wisdom is that the Democratic Party, in dubious "arrangements" with certain local organizations of the Republican Party in cities such as Charlotte, ought to try to exercise harsh, unrelenting editorial control over the work of writers and editors in the Old North State.

Only in "liberal" North Carolina is it possible to go 30 years under the poverty line trying to earn an honest livelihood in journalism-related endeavors free from direct intervention or even censorship by the "progressive" wing of the national and state Democratic parties.

David P. McKnight

Re: "The Old North State"

Proctor — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:42:56 -0400

Oops--In my previous post, make that judge and songwriter William Gaston, who penned "The Old North State."

D. McKnight

Re: Talking Heads Talking Points

Proctor — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:40:53 -0400

Of course, some of us think that North Carolina is really a blue state which has been on another one of its traditional extended Rip Van Winkle naps as occurred in the 19th Century.

And besides Andrew Jackson (Union County, N.C. and Nashville, Tenn.), James K. Polk (Mecklenburg County, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn.) and Andrew Johnson (Raleigh, N.C., and Greeneville, Tenn.), don't forget Vice President Rufus King of Alabama, a native of Sampson County, N.C. Of course, we should perhaps remember him as Vice President-Elect King since he died of an illness before Inauguration Day.

Here's to our judge and songwriter, William Gaston of New Bern, who penned "The Old North Carolina":

"Hoorah, hoorah, the Old North State forever,
"Hoorah, hoorah, the Old North State."

Gastonia and Gaston County, N.C., are named in honor of William Gaston as is the community of Gaston in Northampton County, N.C., just south of the Virginia line.

Thanks to Joe the Candidate--Joe Felmet, the former Winston-Salem Journal newspaperman who entered the field of candidates in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 1978, we often sang Gaston's "The Old North State" at campaign forums and meetings that year, so the song is anything but forgotten on the highways and byways of the--er, the Old North State.

David P. McKnight

Re: Talking Heads Talking Points

jjsmith2 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:16:03 -0400

Please don't call us the Tar Heel State. It's too close to that curse word Tarheel.

Re: See! Dole likes poor people

bnartist — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:24:11 -0400

She can put this in your refrigerator. It's about as close as she gets to Salisbury: