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...Obama's Missouri plan also mirrors his national strategy, McCaskill says. "It's a metaphor for the way Obama sees his job, governing from the bottom up," she says. Renting Main Street storefronts in small-town Missouri and staffing them with paid workers is a way of proving that he can reach out to all walks of American life. No way, no how, Obama's staffers insist, will they do as John Kerry did in 2004, waving the white flag in Missouri a full three weeks before Election Day to pour his resources elsewhere. "We need to make sure...
...even that “outside world” seems pretty heavy right now. So when I walk into a bookstore, all I want is to get that warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy! DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from a tawny furry face and just seem to soothingly purr, “Everything’s going to be alright now that Dewey, the small-town library...
...industry lawyer--with the big oil companies paying his expenses--to write the new state's oil and gas lease laws. Palin's populist approach was the perfect complement to rising public discontent with Big Oil, and it was the main engine of her remarkable rise from small-town mayor to a place on the Republican national ticket...
...hard to understand the nostalgia that many Americans feel for a return to the culture of small-town America - to its appreciation of education, traditional arts, the work ethic, hunting, community spirit and moderate churchgoing? Moderation and cooperation within the international community are what we so desperately need in the U.S. That is the change that McCain and Palin would bring. Jim Clemons, FREDERICKSBURG...
...Dressed in tan trousers, a blue blazer and a striped tie - the unofficial uniform of the small-town Chamber of Commerce - McCain cut quite a different figure from his opponent. He radiated toughness with an overlay of irritation. He tried to warn us two years ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were screwed up, he began, but did America listen? Now look at the trouble...