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Skip to comments.Biden's Words Fall on Deaf Ears in Ohio
Posted on 05/20/2012 4:30:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio Dave Betras is known in The Valley for his colorful language and his political antics and drama. Last Wednesday, however, when Vice President Joe Biden visited a local industrial park, Betras was all about numbers.
Oh, the valley is going to turn out big for Barack Obama this year, big! he said, spreading his arms wide for emphasis. The chairman of Mahoning Countys Democrats pointed to the shipping warehouse of M7 Technologies, a local manufacturer, filled with people waiting to hear Biden speak. Turn-out like today, a full room, Betras, 52, said.
If his job is to turn out Obama supporters on Election Day, he may want to check on their allegiances before he buses them to the polls. Many of the Youngstown attendees at Bidens event do not support him or the president.
Bob McClain and his wife, Myra, went to M7 Technologies to support their friends family business. Neither supports the Obama-Biden ticket.
We are friends of the owners that is why we came, to show support for the Garvey family, said McClain. At 71, hes retired but volunteers full-time as a counselor for Mahoning Valley small-business owners.
Our vote is going for who is best to lead on the economy. That is Romney, for us, said Myra as her husband nodded.
Richard Furillo stood with his son Matthew at his sons place of employment; a lifelong Democrat, he voted for Obama in 2008 but wont again. I don't know why I did it but I cannot stand anymore change, he said, referring to the presidents old campaign slogan.
Father and son both said they attended the event to support the company.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a sitting vice president, added Matthew, also a Democrat. He, too, said he will vote for Romney.
Standing beside them, Jeff Cunningham echoed their sentiments: The biggest challenge in this country is creating jobs that last, jobs that sustain families. The 36-year-old valley native said his vote will be for Romney.
Montgomery Monty Deruyter sat several rows from where Biden stood, addressing the crowd. The 43-year-old father of two started working at M7 as a machinist two months ago; uncertainty is driving him to favor Romney.
I hold both parties at arms length but trust Romneys business skills to lead on the economy, he said.
They were only five of more than a score of people interviewed who said they will not vote for Obama in November; they were the audience members not captured by TV cameras, who sat respectfully during Bidens 30-minute populist speech while the party faithful gathered up and bused in by Betras leaped up every time Bidens voice pitched several decibels.
Even then, discontent was voiced among those faithful and worry that some of the community have no reason to vote for the president next fall.
Joe Louis Teague, 70, a black community icon who has run several failed campaigns for local office, is in charge of coordinating the Obama campaigns voter registration in the Mahoning Valley. He is worried about the black vote because people are discouraged.
Black-on-black crime is out of control; drugs and poor parenting are at the heart of that problem, he said.
I am going to be honest, I think he could have done more, he said of the first black presidents attention to the black community. I think he needs to do more.
As Biden switched between fiery class-warfare rhetoric and whispers about his upbringing in neighboring Pennsylvania, two things stood out: no mention of coal or Marcellus shale natural gas the resources that are bringing prosperity back to this region and his rhetoric about middle-class resentment.
They dont get it! They dont get who we are! he shouted after one pitch about how Republicans don't understand the little guy in places such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Thats an interesting take from Biden, considering Obama's understanding of those same gun- and Bible-clinging embittered voters that he famously described at a high-dollar San Francisco fundraiser in 2008.
It probably is why last weeks Quinnipiac poll showed only one percentage point advantage for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the Buckeye State.
WHY the HELL do Democrats have to BUS in people??? Republicans wouldn;t THINK of doing it, and NO self respecting Republican would get ON the bus!
Dear Liberals and Conservatives: It's the Economy.
We need to cool it on anything else. At the local and Congressional level get the most conservative candidate you can. Evict Obama and get the economy moving and the rest of your agenda is fine with America.
Because at its root, the Democrat is the "GIMME MINE" party. They have to bus people in because if they don't, they won't show up. And there better be a free lunch on that bus.
I suppose Democrats get on the bus because they want to see what it is like.
They are so used to being tossed under the Obama bus they do it just to be different.
If you don't know where your going or why or going there and someone offers you lunch money, you get on the bus.
1. Assemble at the Union Hall and lubricate the crowd at the bar.
2. Show them the cases of beer stacked beside the buses.
3. Load the cases on the buses.
4. Open the doors to the buses and watch the crowd follow the beer.
5. Drive the crowd to the demo.
Do you understand now?
Because 50% of the people are used to having everything done for them, which is why we're in this mess in the first place.
The Democrats have turned into a "GIMME YOURS" party.....they've gone way beyond "GIMME MINE".
Gold Star post for the day !
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Good article. Alhough, no mention that only dolphins can understand what Biden is talking about. :)
I saw TV coverage of Biden's speech .... it was nonsense. He sounded drunk to me. Does Bite-me have a drinking problem ?
The 'Lie'; and Narcissism; are the bedrock of religious Liberalism.
He must have
Given that our next President is either going to be Obama or Romney, this is probably the best of our remaining options.
DemonRats have a fetish for forced-busing.
No, Biden is Larry Mondello.
Loading up a bus with beer and chips and driving past democrat party headquarters is the equal of dragging a c note through a trailer park.
Some Freeper should follow Biden around on his campaign stops to shout "YOU LIE!" during his nonsensical speeches. That'd be entertaining.
"Does Bite-me have a drinking problem ?"
In his case I would recogmend it.
And when republicans do get a good turnout for any event, the dems accuse them of bussing them in.
Alot of plagiarists in the democrat party.
And fake auto-bios.
And fake claims to ancestral lineage.
And fake bios of relatives.
And fake credentials.
Actually, Biden's three brain cells (aka Curly, Larry and Moe) are wont to get out of synch from time to time.
We all didn't trust him and he couldn't figure out why CEO's may be great with some numbers but when it comes to the intuition of people most don't have a clue
Dolphins laugh at Biden, then ignore him....
I'd be interested to have Matthew how his life was enhanced by that moment. A tingle in the leg perhaps?
There's supposed to be an odd tombstone in Massachusetts that reads:
Here lie the bodies of James and John Jones.
One went to sea
The other became Vice President
Neither were ever heard from again
It's interesting how a Democrat usually votes purely on emotion verses a Conservative that will usually vote based on a degree of logic.
It appears there were some independents in that sample too that look like they will break for Romney this time.
Sorry old Joe, we do get who the hell you are and that is why you will be fired. Yelling will not do a damn bit of good.
Heck, a few weeks ago Zero gave a stump speech about a mile from my apartment, and a couple of my friends were all a-twitter about getting to see the president. I made plans to be elsewhere that day!
Some years back, a politician with a sense of humor was asked why he always tried to be the Grand Marshal in a parade. He replied that when a circus comes to town, everybody wants to see the clown.
Yes, and don't ask them to clean up the trash they leave behind when they're finished eating that free lunch either.
I never realized it was such a big deal to see a sitting Vice President. I've seen two men who at the time were former Vice Presidents (Nixon, G.H.W. Bush) and one who was a future Vice President (Cheney), but none who was in office at the time.
My niece in Toledo got a photo taken of herself with Obama the week he ran into Joe the Plumber. She is a staunch democrat and her husband a staunch republican (good for him). Toledo is a strong union city and customarily votes according to what their unions tell them to do.
"Dolphins laugh at Biden, then ignore him...."
That is likely true because dolphin are smart. Whereas Biden is a big dummy.
Also, Dolphin are not plagiarist.
they were the audience members not captured by TV cameras, who sat respectfully during Bidens 30-minute populist speech while the party faithful gathered up and bused in by Betras leaped up every time Bidens voice pitched several decibels.
Triumph of the Will
AMEN to that, it is STILL THE ECONOMY that is to be the MAIN FOCUS.
Correct and it really always has been. Imagine that we consistently had a conservative governor and statehouse in 26/50 states over the last century. That's local politics, but with national implications. Those conservatives could have fought for state's rights, given a bad name over unConstitutional racially biased laws, and perhaps we could have kept the Leviathan in check. Imagine a FedGov half to a third the size we have now with less than a tenth of its regulatory power.
The SCOTUS will also be critical. We have to keep control of the thoughtspace no matter who is POTUS. I believe that Romney is the better choice right now, but electing conservatives from dog catcher to governor will do more to ensure liberty than fretting over Romney's RINOism.
I am going to be honest, I think he could have done more, he said of the first black presidents attention to the black community. I think he needs to do more.
Yes, Obama had a rare opportunity to improve the lot of the black community but gave it up for political advantage.
But honestly he probably never recognized it after a life time of indoctrination by the likes of Rev. Wright in the philosophy of Black Liberation Theology.
What Obama could have done is spoke truth to power (Black Power) as the Democrats are fond of saying. He could have told the black community that they are destroying their own future, that blaming whitey does nothing to improve their lot, that black men making babies with multiple women that they have no intention of marrying or babies that they have neither the ability or the desire to raise will not improve the black community and will only make their lives worse.
He could have told the black community that none of these things is the fault of the white race and that the responsibility to change these things is entirely that of the black community and that only the black community can change these things.
But Obama is completely happy with things the way they are because all of these things keep the black community at home on the Democratic Plantation voting for Democrats 90% of the time.
These are things that a charismatic black leader needs to say to the black community. These are things that the black community needs to hear and things that they need to do something about. But Obama the First Black President has abdicated this responsibility and has missed the opportunity. The First Black President is coming to the end of his tenure as president having done less than nothing for his core constituency. The First Black President will leave office having only made things worse for his people; that is all of his people.
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During the Global Game Jam here at Cogswell, one team decided to create their game for the iPhone. After 2 intense days of creating the game, the team published the game Sumo Stealth through team member and alumni Tobiah Mark's company Yobonja. We caught up with Tobiah to ask him about his experience both with the design and the publishing.
Your name, your position on the team and other members of the team?
Tobiah Marks – Design/Voice of Skunky
Other team members:
George Lam – Programming
Seth Robles - Art
Madison Parker – Art
To read the team's blog during the Global Game Jam, click here.
What is the name of the game and what is the game play like?
The name of the game is Sumo Stealth (available for free on the Apple App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sumo-stealth/id353642050?mt=8). The game only has a simple one button control scheme, tap the screen to change disguise. The story is that a sumo wrestler is trapped in a shopping mall full of roaming gangs of Punks and Monks, and he must sneak past them by disguising himself as one or the other. The game speeds up and gets harder over time, and goes on until you're caught in the wrong disguise. Your score is the number of seconds you lasted before being caught.
What was your inspiration for the game?
Going in we all wanted to make a simple game, focusing in on one or two gameplay elements and just trying to make that fun. The idea we came up with was a player trying to sneak past groups of Monks and Punks. We boiled the whole idea down to its simplest form where all you do is change your character's disguise. After we told the idea to the rest of the Game Jam groups, somebody mentioned the Gamma4 competition going on at the same time looking for one-button game submissions. This had been going on for a while, but the deadline happened to be that same Sunday night Game Jam was done. So we ran with the idea and made it a one-button game so we could also submit to it.
In case you're wondering "Why Punks and Monks? Why do they hate each other?" Well, at the Global Game Jam 2010 at Cogswell College, one of the requirements for the game is that the game must contain a Monk, a Punk, or a Skunk. So we decided to go with Monks vs. Punks. Why make it a sumo wrestler? Because it's funny. We named him Skunky though, just so we can say we hit all three.
At what point did you decide to make an iPhone game? When did you decide to submit it to the App store?
Within the first 15 minutes of starting work on the game, we decided to make it for the iPhone. One of the first things we thought after setting up was "This game would make a cool iPhone app". Well, George had a copy of Unity iPhone, and Yobonja (my company) has a developer account, so everything just worked out too nicely not to do it.
What was the most rewarding part of making the game?
The team. We had a great team, and we all had similar visions of what we wanted out of the game. It was great to just have everything click and fall into place without any last-minute drama or design arguments or struggle to complete the game on time.
What was the most challenging?
I'm not sure. I'm still impressed that Madison made a whole 3D mall full of assets in 2 days, or that George had the whole game working in prototype form late Friday night, etc. But I'd say probably turning Seth's awesome drawings into a animated character, and trying to set to look correct in Unity since none of us were animators.
Tell us a little bit about your newest game, Snack Time for Caterpillar?
My company, Yobonja, just released Snack Time for Caterpillar. It's an iPhone game where you move around a cute little caterpillar on a leaf trying to eat as much food as possible while trying to avoid dragonflies that come to bother you. You control the caterpillar by tilting your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad then once you've built up enough energy by eating you can engage monster mode and turn into a dragonfly eating machine! The game has social features like global highscores, awards, and facebook/twitter integration powered by AGON Online. It is available now for free on the iTunes app store. http://apps.yobonja.com/snacktime

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Happy birthday to Hank Gowdy
The Columbus Dispatch - January 27, 2011 02:23 AM
Henry Morgan "Hank" Gowdy, a Columbus native, was the first Major League Baseball player to enlist in World War I and the only one to serve in both world wars. He was a catcher who hit .270 over 16 seasons. The photo above shows him playing in the Army in Sommercourt, France, during WWI.
Gowdy led the 1914 "Miracle Braves" of Boston from last place (on the Fourth of July) to the pennant and a sweep of the World Series against the heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics. He was a star hitter who hit .545 in the Series with five extra-base hits and three RBIs.
He was born in Columbus 121 years ago today, on Aug. 24, 1889. He played football, basketball and baseball at Hubbard Elementary and North High School. Throughout his decades in baseball as a player and coach, he always called Columbus home and resided here in the off season.
His major league debut was as a first baseman for the New York Giants in 1910, and he was traded to Boston the next year. In 1914, he became Boston's regular catcher.
Gowdy signed up in June 1917, was a national hero, and saw action in France with the Ohio National Guard. When he returned in 1919, he got his old job as a catcher back. Four years later, he was traded back to the Giants, where he played in the 1923 and 1924 World Series.
IN A 1999 DISPATCH ARTICLE about the athletes, coaches and sports personalities who helped shape Columbus' sports century, we reported:
Gowdy found himself on the wrong end of World Series attention in one of the most bizarre games in history. In the seventh and final game of the '24 Series between the Giants and the Washington Senators, the teams entered the bottom of the 12th inning with the score tied at 3.
Muddy Ruel of the Senators hit a pop fly near home plate -- seemingly an easy play for Gowdy. The wind shifted the ball's flight though, and when Gowdy took a step toward where the ball would drop he stepped in his catcher's mask, which he had tossed off to chase the fly.
Unable to shake free of the mask -- "It held me like a bear trap," he would later say -- Gowdy watched the ball drop in foul territory.
Given new life, Ruel hit a double and scored moments later when a ground ball hopped over the head of Giants third baseman Fred Lindstrom, giving the Senators a 4-3 win and their only world title.
In 1925, the Giants released him. He was manager of the old Columbus Senators in 1926. He later made a comeback with the Braves, but with limited playing time. He then became a coach with the Giants, Braves and Reds.
When the United States entered World War II, Gowdy enlisted again at age 53 and was promoted to major. In 1944, he returned to Fort Benning, Ga., where he served as Chief Athletic Officer. (The baseball field at Fort Benning is named "Gowdy Field.") He returned to coaching in 1946 with the Reds. By 1948, he had retired from baseball.
The Dispatch has reported that Gowdy came back to Columbus in 1950. He headed up the Columbus Youth Foundation, and his trademark was a big cigar in his mouth.
Hank Gowdy died in Columbus at age 76 and is buried in Union Cemetery.
In this 1957 photo, Hank Gowdy, in charge of tryout sessions at Jet Stadium (later known as Cooper Stadium), discusses a few pointers with (left) Stan Ebert of Grove City, Tom Miller of Dublin and (right) Roger Remlinger of Prospect.
About Columbus' Gowdy Field
On the site of Gowdy Field -- a 25-acre parcel named to honor Hank -- sit two flashy new buildings, the Time Warner regional headquarters and Ohio State University's Eye and Ear Institute. These can be seen on the west side of 315 North as you leave Downtown.
The JamesCare Comprehensive Breast Health Center is also being built on the site.
Decades ago, the Godman Guild used it as a community garden to provide food to approximately 250 poor families before and after the Great Depression.
From the mid-1940s, the site, known as Goodale Field, featured more than 20 baseball diamonds.
In 1952, the Columbus City Council renamed it Gowdy Field, and in 1964, passed a resolution allowing the city's service department to use the site as a landfill. It was then filled with construction debris and trash for about two decades. It was later covered in dirt and became a neglected weedlot, sitting vacant until 2005.
The 1964 resolution allowing dumping on the ball diamonds required that the playing fields be restored once the garbage had piled up high enough to meet the road level, but no new ballfields materialized.
The City of Columbus determined that the best use for Gowdy Field would not be as a recreational site, but as commercial office space with tax-generating jobs.
Its renewal is recognized nationally as a cutting-edge landfill redevelopment project.
In addition, Fire Station 25 on W. 3rd Avenue in Columbus is known as the Henry "Hank" Gowdy Fire Station.
Hank Gowdy with his trademark cigar, circa 1938


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a bilateral meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez at the Department of State on January 25, 2011. Their meeting is a follow-up to their talks at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2010. The counterparts discussed a variety of issues, such as mutual security, including the situations in Lebanon and Afghanistan, as well as fulfilling economic and development goals around the world.
Secretary Clinton underscored the strength of the U.S.-Spain relationship. She said, "The enduring partnership between the United States and Spain is rooted in friendship and common values. We are not only bilateral partners, but regional and global as well, and united in a shared vision for a world that is peaceful, secure, and prosperous.""We discussed the evolving situation in Lebanon where Spanish soldiers have served in the peacekeeping operations of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, under a Spanish commander. We both share deep concerns about the influence of outside forces, and we hope to see a government emerge that will serve the interests of the people of Lebanon and sustain the independence and sovereignty of Lebanon.
"As NATO allies, we have worked closely and comprehensively to support the people of Afghanistan as they rebuild their country. Spanish troops are fighting the insurgency in Badghis Province and helping Afghan forces take lead responsibility for their own security. At the same time, civilian experts from Spain are helping Afghans grow food crops, train police forces, build roads that connect the country's far-flung rural communities.
"As global partners, we are working side by side to solve some of the most pressing problems. Both our countries are committed to fighting chronic hunger. Spain was one of the founding contributors to the World Bank's Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, which has already helped farmers boost productivity, encouraged investments in high-yield technologies, and helped improve nutrition for women and children.
"With its historical and lasting ties with Spanish-speaking countries, Spain is an especially important partner in this hemisphere. We are working together to help the people and governments of Central America ensure safety and build prosperity. After the United States, Spain is the second largest donor of development assistance in the region, including its work with the Group of Friends, a consortium of governments and organizations that fosters aid donations. It is actively working in Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, so many other places. And I want to thank the government and the people of Spain, especially during what I know are challenging economic conditions for all you are doing to help people get a better education, to help farmers, to help bring clean water and so much more to advance development. But I would expect no less, because Spain is a great champion for human rights not only in the Western Hemisphere but around the world.
"I expressed our thanks for its work with the Catholic Church to secure the release of political prisoners and for Spain's ongoing efforts to encourage Cuba to release Alan Gross, who has been harshly and unfairly jailed for too long. I also appreciate all the work that Spain is doing in Haiti. They have worked with a wide range of international partners donating food and medical supplies, providing doctors and nurses, and now working with us to ensure a legitimate, democratically elected government.
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You can read the Secretary's complete remarks here.