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The Old Gray Lady
Submitted by Dan U-A on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 7:45am.
So, my life as the unqualified talking head lives on, this time in the NYTimes, talking about bloggers and the state of the Presidential race in Pennsylvania. (OK, they asked about Pennsylvania, but I mainly talked about Philly.)
For the interview part of it, I think the reporter kind of missed my point. It wasn't that we don't care, or that we don't follow it religiously, it was that we are sold on Obama, so we don't need to spend time debating that.
Anyway, it is one thing to interview me. We all make mistakes. But then, they made the biggest error of all...
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Congrats Dan!
I have often said:
And if this isn't proof of that, or at least seriously fun, what is?
P.S. Obama made a classic mistake
Nowhere near the Swiss cheese on a cheesesteak level, but Obama at 52nd Street on Saturday kept talking about job loss in Pennsylvania. And you could see people's wheels turning some to figure out where that was or what he meant by it. We are always Philadelphians first.
Which is to say, who can blame you for writing about Philadelphia rather than addressing PA? I love the state and all, but it's really a different place than here.
I saw him in NE
and his standby economics talking points made a ton more sense there than on 52nd. He even directly tied the credit crunch to construction to union jobs since it was union heavy crowd at the Mayfair. Ray's right in that 52nd St. is already feeling the pain but still that pain is not as much as it is likely to feel sooner rather than later no matter if we win or not, unfortunately. Our longtime local problems insulate us from the passing shocks somewhat but they still do get here eventually.
BTW - they are likely to sadly rise even more but I swore I heard recently on the radio that PA unemployment claims doubled through August and September.
Looking briefly, Google finds
"Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was 5.8 percent in August, the highest in five years." in a Baltimore Sun anti-slots parlor piece. Of course chronic unemployment in West Philly has been higher than that state average for a long time.
Congrats, BTW, Dan.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
Jumped The Shark
Well, it looks like the New York Times has Jumped The Shark. (j/k)