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Source: yahoo.com
Since wrapping up the Democratic nomination in June, Obama, his wife, Michelle, and his running mate Joe Biden have visited the commonwealth a combined 12 times. The candidate himself was in the Tidewater city of Newport News Saturday.
Obama is also plowing millions into Virginia, blanketing the airwaves with TV and radio ads, filling up mailboxes with leaflets and, along with the state party, operating 49 campaign offices.
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"I think [McCain] needs to get here," said Rep. Tom Davis, a longtime member of Congress who represents a Northern Virginia district. "I think they've got to pay more attention."
Davis
"Obama is not a Virginia Democrat," Davis said.
But the former National Republican Congressional Committee chair, who is retiring this year, said because of the party's troubled brand and Obama's effort to increase African-American turnout, the Virginia race now stands even.
"The economy hurts us across the board and Obama is really running hard and putting more resources here than McCain - he's got the money."..." yahoo.com
Ant and Grasshopper 2008 version
The moral of the 2 stories should be read and understood by all
This one is a little different.
Two different versions!
Two different morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well-fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out
in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
Dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold
and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures
of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth,
this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,
and everybody cries when they sing,
'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing,
'We shall overcome.'
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for
the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on
the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, President Obama approves the EEOC draft from
the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive
to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is
The moral of the 2 stories should be read and understood by all
This one is a little different.
Two different versions!
Two different morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well-fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out
in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
-------------------
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
Dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should be
allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold
and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures
of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth,
this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,
and everybody cries when they sing,
'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's
house where the news stations film the group singing,
'We shall overcome.'
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for
the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on
the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, President Obama approves the EEOC draft from
the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive
to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retro-
active taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper
in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried
Before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed,
when he was in office, from a list of single-parent welfare
Recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up
the last bits of the ant's food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retro-
active taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper
in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried
Before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed,
when he was in office, from a list of single-parent welfare
Recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up
the last bits of the ant's food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
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