Flag City Politico

What...me worry?

One week from tonight is the Pennsylvania. There has already been quite a bit of stories about Clinton and Obama over the past few weeks as the media tries to find something to fill their columns and air time, so thank goodness the primary is right around the corner.

Just so we are all on the same page moving forward, here is how the two candidates stand coming in to this next contest:

 

The latest polling from Pennsylvania still shows Clinton maintaining her lead, staying between 5-9% in the latest polls. Obama wants to get past next week without receiving too much damage (or having Clinton narrow the lead much), before he heads into North Carolina and what still looks like the next win he can put into his column.

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Whether it was intentional or not, shouldn't the chairman of the Associated Press be the last person to make a mistake like this?

For Obama and McCain, the Bitter and the Sweet
So much for the liberal media. John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation's newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist. >>
Dana Milbank
Washington Post

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In case you missed it, Stephen Colbert is in Pennsylvania this week.

Colbert reports at Penn
The Colbert Nation has become the Colbert Campus, as Stephen Colbert, the Emmy award-winning comedy host, has descended upon Penn's Zellerbach Theatre for the week. >>
Colin Kavanaugh
The Daily Pennsylvanian

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And finally, from the "Who called this one first?" department. One of the headlines straight from the pages of TheCourier.com today - RiverPlace? Developer, lawyers aren't talking. I'm glad everything about this was settled months ago. Instead of the city seal, the council chamber should hang up a poster of Alfred E. Neuman with the words 'What...me worry?"

-RSKnopfJr

Proclamation

The message resonates and is as poignant and relevant now as it was seven score and four years ago...

Happy Thanksgiving!

-RSKnopfJr

Quotations II - Results

1   "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine. When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead."   I - Gen. George S. Patton

2   "He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either."   J - George Bernard Shaw

3   "To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."   A - Aristotle

4   "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."   D - Martin Luther King, Jr.

5   "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens canchange the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."   H - Margaret Mead

6   "The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made."   G - Groucho Marx

7   "I know there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that."   E - Tom Lehrer 

8   "Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other."   C - Milton Friedman

9   "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."   F - James Madison

10   "The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit."   B - Confucius 

Congratulations to Elizabeth Michelle Gaylord of Findlay who won a gift certificate to The Woodland Restaurant.

-RSKnopfJr

Quotations II

1   "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine. When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead."

2   "He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either."

3   "To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

4   "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

5   "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens canchange the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has."

6   "The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made."

7   "I know there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that."

8   "Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other."

9   "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

10   "The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit."

A - Aristotle
B - Confucius
C - Milton Friedman
D - Martin Luther King, Jr.
E - Tom Lehrer
F - James Madison
G - Groucho Marx
H - Margaret Mead
I - Gen. George S. Patton
J - George Bernard Shaw

Listed above are ten quotations and individuals. Match the person (letter) to their quotation (number), and e-mail your answers (along with your name and mailing address) to flagcitypolitico@gmail.com by 11:59p on Saturday, June 9, 2007. Out of all the entries I receive with the highest number of correct answers, one person's name will be drawn at random for a gift certificate to The Woodland Restaurant.

-RSKnopfJr

Quotations I - Results

1  "Politics is like football. If you see daylight, go through the hole."   D - John F. Kennedy

2  "Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan I know he is going to vote against me."   I - Harry Truman

3  "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."   F - Abraham Lincoln

4  "If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business."   C - Edward Heath

5  "Political work is the life-blood of all economic work."   J - Mao Tse-Tung

6  "There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."   H - Will Rogers

7  "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.''   A - Bill Cosby

8  "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."   E - Martin Luther King Jr.

9  "You are remembered for the rules you break."   G - Douglas MacArthur

10  "We cannot solve today's problems using the mindset that created them."   B - Albert Einstein

Congratulations to Dr. Eugene Michael Gaylord of Findlay who won a gift certificate to The Woodland Restaurant.

-RSKnopfJr

Quotations I

1  "Politics is like football. If you see daylight, go through the hole."

2  "Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan I know he is going to vote against me."

3  "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

4  "If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business."

5  "Political work is the life-blood of all economic work."

6  "There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

7  "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.''

8  "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

9  "You are remembered for the rules you break."

10  "We cannot solve today's problems using the mindset that created them."

A - Bill Cosby
B - Albert Einstein
C - Edward Heath
D - John F. Kennedy
E - Martin Luther King Jr.
F - Abraham Lincoln
G - Douglas MacArthur
H - Will Rogers
I - Harry Truman
J - Mao Tse-Tung

Listed above are ten quotations and individuals. Match the person (letter) to their quotation (number), and e-mail your answers (along with your name and mailing address) to flagcitypolitico@gmail.com by 11:59p on Saturday, May 26, 2007. Out of all the entries I receive with the highest number of correct answers, one person's name will be drawn at random for a prize (to be determined...but please, do not expect a new car).

Thanks to everyone's e-mails and comments supporting the FCPolitico. I just want you to know that I (and Bailey) appreciate the kind words and suggestions.

-RSKnopfJr