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    Appalachia is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,839 at the 2000 census. Appalachia is located at 36°54′23″N, 82°47′8″W (36.906505, -82.785560). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,839 people, 790 households, and 515 families residing in the town. The population density was 797.3 people per square mile (307.4/km²). There were 891 housing units at an average density of 386.3/sq mi (148.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 94.18% White, 4.57% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.38% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.20% of the population. There were 790 households out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.4% were married couples living together, 17.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.8% were non-families. 33.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.95. h

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    City Contained By:

    • Wise County
    • Virginia

    Timezones:

    • North American Eastern Time Zone

    Size:

    • 5.95697265377 km squared

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    Questions Possibly Related to Appalachia, Virginia

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    is all of west virginia considered to be part od appalachia?

    Answer:
    You're ignorant.

    Is there anyone who knows dog shelters or shops in the southwest virginia area?
    Question:
    I am talking about the norton, wise county, pound, big stone gap, appalachia, clintwood, rye cove, coeburn, gate city area. and also kingsport, TN and johnson city, Tn also these states- NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA, AND KENTUCKY.

    Answer:
    try http://www.petfinder.com

    Why don't liberal people care about Appalachia?
    Question:
    Liberal people love to present themselves as the most compassionate (even though studies show that conservatives give a greater percentage of their income to charity, http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm) I' ve noticed liberals don't tend to care one iota about the third world conditions that exist in many parts of appalachia. I live in West Virginia, and though I live in a middle class town, I can drive 30 minutes in any given direction to places where children walk up and down the highway scavenging for cans to trade in so that they might eat. Yet liberals don't care about these people at all. Why is that? The poverty that exists in Appalachia is so much more severe than any kind of inner city poverty. I'm talking about people who can't read a word and don't even have a toilet. burned bagels: most of the people I speak of have so little education that they have no political views. most of them just care about surviving.

    Answer:
    What makes you think liberals don't care? Don't we fight for government programs that help those people? Don't we volunteer for services to help them?

    Appalachia Ancestors?
    Question:
    I am currently watching The Appalachians on PBS. My dad's family settled in Virgina and over to Alabama as early as the mid 1600's from England, Ireland and Wales. My moms came in the mid 1700's from Ireland and settled in Kentucky and West Virginia and worked the coal mines, both sides of the family had farms. Anyway, does anyone else have family or ancestors from Appalachia? Please share your stories.

    Answer:
    My Grandfather had a tobacco farm in Lee County Virginia. Most of that side of my family came from Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia - all near the mountains. Grandpa started out his career as a lawyer but decided that it was so corrupted that he became a farmer. I am proud of my hardworking family and really enjoy going to Lee County to visit the family home.

    Will Obama actually see a lot MORE support in appalachia than public perception suggests?
    Question:
    My wife was telling me she heard an interview with a person in Ohio who said that they thought support would actually be a lot stronger in their community as a they feel pressure to not be caught on TV or the papers saying that they will not be supporting McCain. The implication is that the community is a bit racist, but that the voters are actually willing to vote for a black guy who will put them to work---they just don't want their neighbors to know. It is curious...I have expected to see a bradley effect accross appalachia and the neighboring states.... from Indiana to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Virginia. If this guy is on to something, we may not see much of a bradley effect at all... I am reminded of Virginia where local Obama's supporters in the area are having a very honest talk with their neighbors telling the voters that they can either "have a black friend in the white house or a another white enemy."

    Answer:
    I think there is a possibility of that because of what I see in my own neighborhood: NO Obama/Biden posters at all, but some (not a heck of lot, though) McCain/Palins. And guess what? I volunteer for the local Obama campaign, but I DON'T have an Obama/Biden sign in my front yard. Why? Because I live in a real "neighborhood" neighborhood--defined by two, connected dead end roads that come off a main road behind a school, in fact. So while we don't socialize a heck of a lot, we know who goes for their walk when, we wave at each other, and we even know who's dog belongs to whom and will return it if it strays. We but girls scout cookies from each other's kids and say high at the football games...and I think I'm like others--maybe a LOT of others--in my neighborhood in that I don't want my neighbors to know who I'm voting for for fear that they may see me differently if they knew. It's a silly fear, but I feel that pressure to fit in--even though, for all I know, an Obama/Biden sign would be reasuring to others who are just as worried that they may be the odd man out. I also have friends in WVA--from an OLD WVA family: very, very traditional. And they are older folks, too. And yet they've been for Obama for months. MONTHS. So I think you might just be right.

    Is Virginia's Jim Webb campaigning to be Obama's VP?
    Question:
    I was watching MSNBC and Jim Webb showed up. One of the first questions asked of him was has anyone contacted you about being Obama's VP? He didn't answer the question really, but during a followup about Kentucky's results, laid out more arguement for Jim Webb. Webb apparently wrote a book about the political potential of Appalachia. He claims the people of Appalachia as "his people" and states that the needs of the working class poor in appalachia are practically identical to the needs of poor blacks. He suggests a coalition to unit both groups might be unbeatable for the dems. I had thought Webb was good for maybe his home state and a a small bump in 2 nearby states. Virginia has 13 electoral votes and went red last time but is in play with Obama. With Webb it would be soundly Obama. He could deliver Virginia and maybe help deliver nearby winnable "Obama swing states" like SC & NC. Is it possible that Obama's Appalachian strategy is based on Webb as VP? Webb states he beleives the appalachian states could respond well to Obama. The underlying message there is that appalachian whites might vote for a black candidate --- they are not irredeemably and thoroughly racist. I think there is a lot to suggest that he is right to a degree. If Obama had contested both states, the turnout would have probably been double what it was and Obama still would have lost by the total numbers of votes, but the margin would have been a much smaller percentage of total vote. People would be looking at WV and KY as just moderately racist and not embarrassingly so. That IMO was the arguement for campaigning there. The arguement against it is that Hillary would have actively made the campaign about race if Obama contested it. By sidestepping it, a much smaller chunk of the state is committed against him. He minimized the damage Hillary could do. But consider this bit of curious thought. Supposing Obama's camp knew Webb was their VP choice. That kind of would make sense of the strategy. The fewer people in Appalachia that are firmly committed against you now, the more people you and your white VP have a chance at winning in the region. To what affect. Do not misunderstand me. Appalachia has a lot of racists and WV and KY aren't going to elect Obama. But if he had contested those states and Hillary had had to run on racism, a lot more people in those states would have decided based on racism. You cannot undo that kind of decision. If say 700-800K people voted against Obama in a contested state instead of 450K, you would have a much larger pool of people who decided on race. This hurts you because people in WV and KY have relatives in PA and OH. If Webb was their guy, and they thought they could win the election by say June 3rd or so, then on Jun 4th, they could place webb and on june 5th Webb and Obama could proceed into those states to campaign for the general election. I think that it really is not an issue that Hillary has won the very racist vote. What is an issue is that Hillary has been able to make the election about race and have modestly racist folks making voting decisions on race via peer pressure. By sidestepping the primary, Obama removed the deadline. Modestly racist people in the region may have a lean against Obama, but honestly they probably didn't go to the polls and as such haven't voted against him once already. They see him mostly as an elitist who doesn't care about them. Obama can come back from this and say not contesting WV and KY was a mistake. I thought my policies that would favor them would carry the day, but I realize by not going to them repeatedly and listening to them, I am guilty of being arrogant. Together means everyone. I have chosen Jim Webb as my VP because he won't let me make that mistake again. We will be back in appalachia tommorow listening to you and improving our policies with your imput. I think Webb would get all but the hard core racists in the region to at least consider Obama. Obama's economic policies are much more favorable to the region than McCain's. It is night and day. (McCain's economic policy for them is to join the military.) I think in this scenario come the general, you might see both state go 53-47 McCain. Basically Obama getting 55% of issue vote and McCain getting 45% of that vote plus the racist vote which would give him the electoral wins. The important thing is that both states would not be irredeemably lost over racial voting and as such would not swing states Obama could use like OH and PA to McCain. It undoes a LOT of the unseen damage that Hillary's campaign has done to Obama. I have been struggling to find a strategy that made enough sense to not contest KY and WV vs. Hillary at all. I think this might be it. In this execution -- Webb as voice of Appalacia --- Obama could build coalitions to swing state like Miss and LA too. latest polls. Virginia McCain 47, Obama 44 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/virg inia.html North Carolina McCain 51, Obama 43 (this was deadlocked for months) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president /north_carolina.html Ohio McCain 45, Obama 44 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ohio .html Penn McCain 40, Obama 48 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/penn sylvania.html

    Answer:
    NOT AFTER HE SAID WHAT HE SAID ABOUT APPALACHIA... He basically admitted Obama can't get that vote. That's the part of White America that hates all of the preferential treatment that Blacks received while ignoring them completely. Like Webb said: "If you're poor and white, you're out of sight". Webb can't deliver Virginia. There are too many Veterans there that have allegiance to McCain.

    Anyone know anything about Beckley, West Virginia?
    Question:
    My man just went down there and is staying with some chick he claims is his friend and I just want to know what the setting is like. He said they are off city limits in some small town? Any insight??? He said that everyone knows each other and that they are in the boonies??? What is it like out there? Nice or really poor and depressed looking. Please let me know.. Also, what are the houses out there like? The houses that they auction off for dirt cheap??? I need to know. Is this like appalachia or what?

    Answer:
    I live in the northern part of West Virginia, and I don't think Beckley is the boonies. Beckley is probably about 20,000 people, and where I live is about 1,500 people and the closest towns the size of Beckley to me are 60 miles away from where I live. I do live in the Appalachian mountains. The county where I live only has a total of 4 red lights, and some counties in West Virginia does not have a one red light or cops. If he only lives off the city limits, I personally would not call that the boonies. I feel West Virginians are fairly nice people. As for houses to buy, well I have seen them as low as $15 - $20 thousand dollars with an acre or 2. However West Virginia pay rate is low compared to other states, feel very luck to make $10 per hr. I'll let you know ahead of time that the roads are not very straight or flat. Left you a website I thought was interesting. If you would like more info, please feel free to email me.

    Where will W. Virginia go in the general election?
    Question:
    During the Republican primary, Huckabee got 52% and McCain got a meager 1%. My question is: If there are two general election candidates that the W. Virginians have a distaste for, how much do you think the Appalachia vote will matter in the general? http://abcnews.go.com/politics/elections/state?state= WV&ref=ipb

    Answer:
    LOL! That is a great point... Do they go for McCain who garnered 1% of the vote in the Rep Primary or Obama who garnered 26% of the Dem primary. I think people forget that McCain has a pretty obvious general disdain for the grossly uneducated as well. I think it would be safe to say neither candidate seems to find it worthwhile to kiss WV's ass. I suppose it will boil down to whichever candidate needs their votes enough to have to travel into appalachia and promise free gas forever or whatever all those folks think are reasonable campaign platforms.

    Obama and the Appalachia?
    Question:
    I'm a Black man, and I am voting for John McCain. What does it say about the Great Senators character when he deceided to address the NAACP when Republicans only get 7% or less of the Black Vote? What does it say about the Hussein guy when he ran away from good old White Folks in West Virginia during the primaries. Vote McCain, he's a genuine man with a genuine heart. By the way, Obama is not even Black American, he's African. Real Black Americans for John McCain. OBama is not a slave descendant, he has no right to call himself a Black American.

    Answer:
    I'm glad you're voting for McCain and all, it shows you have good sense, but race shouldn't have anything to do with it. There are real Americans who are black and voting for Nobama, it's America they have the right to be wrong.

    If White Racism Isn't Obama's Problem, Please Explain This...?
    Question:
    Before this primary began, if you would have asked any sociologist where unapologetic white racism is most alive and well amongst democrats, they would have told you, the lunchpail Democrats of the rustbelt states and the backwoods appalachian states. So here we are, and where is Obama having the most trouble? Ohio, Pennsylvania (rustbelt) West Virginia, Kentucky (appalachia). Come on...you think it's a COINCIDENCE that the most educationally backward area of white America, JUST HAPPENS to really dislike the black guy? Look...if you'd all just be honest and admit that states with blue collar older white people, really really dislike the concept of voting for a black person, I'd call you honest. But you all want to PRETEND like it has nothing to do with his race. Come on now...in a general election, the black candidate could have won the Medal Of Honor, have an IQ of 190, be a brain surgeon, and even be a Republican...and he STILL wouldn't carry the south.

    Answer:
    Obama has done best in both predominately ''black'' areas AND predominately ''white'' areas more often than not.

    What should i pack?
    Question:
    I am going on a trip to West Virginia for this thing with my youth group called the Appalachia Experience. It's like a lesser version of Habitat for Humanity; we repair houses as opposed to building them. We will be staying at a hotel, and it is from March 24-29. What clothes should I make sure to pack, and what other things? I am only 14 and my parents won't be on the trip, so I can't rely on them.

    Answer:
    make sure clothes, like bring some jeans, check weather if is not cold or warm, knee-length pants dvd, ipod, phone, money, bathing suits(if have)

    what do you think?
    Question:
    I live in Rhea County, Tennessee in a small town called Grandview, right on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The view looking down from the edge of that plateau is pretty grand, except for the fact that you can see the cooling tower of Watts Bar Nuclear power plant. Now they're trying to get another reactor online at Watts Bar, because they are completely insane. The worst industrial disaster in human history happened at a nuclear power plant, but I guess it's okay to put millions of lives at risk for more electricity. We all know there's only a small chance that all those people will be slaughtered due to the demand for power. Our masters also want us to think it's okay for the plant to use up all that water. Electricity is more important that water right? I love people. I also love plants. I also love animals. I love clean air and clean water. In short, I love life. I love the forests, mountains, rivers and oceans that generate this life and provide a habitat and healthy environment for living things. And last but not least, I love bacteria. Our mouths are full of bacteria. There are more bacteria cells in our bodies than human cells. You could not digest food without the bacteria in your gut. I'm telling you this because it's important to realize that the web of life is connected in ways most of us never think about. It's not just trees producing oxygen for us and us producing carbon dioxide for trees. Though the intellectual and rational part of our beings may understand our connections to the web of life, we have lost our spiritual and emotional connection. Life cannot function and flourish without clean air and water and a healthy landbase full of diverse life. Our air, water and land is currently being polluted and destroyed by people and industries who care more about money and power than respecting life. These people have no right to destroy resources that we all depend on, and we have every right, indeed a responsibility, to stop this destruction by any means necessary if we wish for life to continue. If our spiritual connection to all of life was being realized by us as fully as it should be, it would be too painful for us to allow this destruction to continue. We would vividly feel how this destruction is hurting us and we would feel the pain of our brothers and sisters being killed throughout the planet. Because we do not feel this, we do not do whatever it takes to make the killers stop. The environmental movement has failed to stop this destruction. Anyone who is environmentally aware knows that the destruction is growing at an accelerated rate, it has been at least since the industrial revolution began, and we have failed to stop this acceleration. We have succeeded in slowing the acceleration down a little bit, not nearly enough, but the destruction is still accelerating. We need to seriously re-evaluate our strategies and tactics for fighting this destruction. We are at the point where we must engage in actions that actually stop environmental destruction from happening, as well as actions that improve the environment and help it renew. The government has failed to adequately protect our environment, and has shown that it has no interest in doing so. It is currently illegal to bury our life-giving streams, but the government lets it happen anyway. There is currently a rule known as the "stream buffer zone" that prohibits dumping mining waste within 100 feet of streams. You see, water is important for life's survival, and if we treat our water supplies like waste dumps, life won't go on surviving. Of course the coal mining industry finds ways around this rule so easily that they've already buried over 1,000 miles of our Appalachian streams. Now the Bush administration's Office of Surface Mining wants to remove this rule. This rule change would simply make legal what is already happening. The Office of Surface Mining and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation are appointed government agencies who are letting our environment be destroyed. This rule change would accelerate this destruction further by allowing mountaintop removal coal mining to happen faster, since without the rule in place, citizens have no legal grounds for challenging the dumping of mining waste into their water supplies. This is nothing more than the government removing some red tape so the coal companies can rape the land more quickly. As if that's not enough, now the industry and military are setting the stage to drastically increase the demand for coal by pushing for massive government subsidies towards coal-to-liquids technology. Coal converted to liquid fuel pollutes more than gasoline. The U.S. military is one of the biggest consumers of oil on the planet, and they know the stuff over in the Middle East won't last forever and is in an unstable region. What better to fuel our unstoppable air force than some homegrown Appalachian liquid coal? Know what other military-industrial complex used coal-to-liquids technology? The Nazis. Burning coal is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. It should be clear by now that the question is no longer will global warming hit us, but how fast and how hard. Conservative estimates are saying that we'll get at least a meter of sea level rise even if we start drastically reducing our emissions now. But we're not reducing, we're increasing. A meter of sea level rise will displace millions of people along our country's coast lines. Just think of how much more strained the land that sustains us now will be when those people start moving inland. We weren't even close to being prepared for Katrina, and we're much farther from being prepared for this. I recently became aware of an article in the British paper called The Independent. In this article, Professor Sir David King, the top scientist for the British government, predicts that if we don't do something about global warming, then by the year 2100, the only land on the planet that will be able to sustain human life will be Antarctica. If you think renewables will save us, you should know that according to the Energy Information Administration, only 2.4% of U.S. electricity came from renewables in 2006. They predict that from 2005 to 2030, renewable electricity generation will increase by roughly 100 billion kilowatthours. However, they expect total electricity sales to increase by around 1,500 billion kilowatthours during the same period. Demand for electricity is growing much faster than use of renewable technologies. Unless this situation changes drastically very soon, which it probably won't, renewable energy technologies will not avert a climate crisis. Now they're talking about drilling for oil beneath the Arctic. The Russians submarined down there and stuck a flag in in case you haven't heard. The thirst for fossil fuels will never end until there's nothing left. But the oil beneath the Arctic is the least of our worries. Human caused greenhouse gas emissions pale in comparison to the massive amounts of methane that will be released as the Arctic ice melts. We need to stop this destruction now. The web of life is strong, and it will renew itself, but we must act now if we wish to see this renewal. The more destruction that happens before a climate crisis hits, the more difficult it will be and the longer it will take for life on earth to renew and regenerate afterwards. The longer it takes for the destruction to stop, the worse it will be for all of us. Our government has proven itself unwilling, perhaps unable, to stop this destruction. This government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people, and when the government allows the very resources that the people's lives depend on to be destroyed, and appointed government agents change the rules to accelerate this destruction, then the people should not allow the government to exist and do everything they can to stop this destruction themselves. Unless we can all start to prioritize maintaining life above maintaining a certain way of life, we are doomed. It saddens me that even many environmentally-minded people seem to fail to realize this. We don't need TV and the internet and automobiles and cell phones, MP3 players and electricity everywhere. We need clean air, clean water and a healthy landbase. The resources we need are being destroyed so that we can have luxuries and conveniences. Not so that we all can have luxuries, but so that some of us can have luxuries. Over half the people on this planet live on less than two dollars a day. We wouldn't have our luxuries if the lives of many others were not being oppressed and exploited, being driven off their land so it can be exploited too, and made to serve this machine of oppression and destruction. This is happening here in our Appalachian Mountains, and it is happening nearly all over the world. The U.S. military is destroying Iraq to take control of the oil, and coal companies are detonating over four million pounds of explosives every day (that's 27 atomic bombs per year) in Appalachia to take control of the coal. Twenty-five percent of Wise County, Virginia has already been destroyed. Virginia coal plants already cause nearly 1,000 premature deaths every year, and now Dominion Power is trying to build another coal-fired power plant there. Here in Tennessee, the coal industry wants to mine an area in Bledsoe County near Fall Creek Falls that has been declared land unsuitable for mining due to the dangers the acid mine drainage there would pose to the ecosystem: our ecosystem. We can stop this, but we have to make it happen and we have to make it happen now. We cannot rely on the system to stop the destruction. The system is the problem that is causing the destruction. We don't need government. We don't need industry. We need life and love. Government and industry protect and serve the lives of few and destroy the lives of many. But their game cannot and will not last forever. Let's end it now. what you think.

    Answer:
    What do I think? I think that was ALOT to read!! LOL What was the question??

    Does this basically describe McCain's VP choice?
    Question:
    The Veep: A Short Play in One Act Sometimes fiction is a better vehicle for getting inside someone's mind. Besides, it's all we have. Here is a short play for two actors. Let's call them Schmidt, a tough, savvy consultant, and McCain, a candidate. All names have been changed to protect the innocent. Schmidt: McCain, Get your ass over here and look at this map. McCain: It's the U.S. with the states red and blue. Seen it before. What's your point? Schmidt: Obama's gonna win all the Kerry States. You have a small chance to pick off New Hampshire but 60% of the people think you're pro choice. When they find out you've been pro life for 25 years, forget New Hampshire. McCain: Where does that leave me? Schmidt: Bush won 286 to 252. McCain: Fine with me. Schmidt: But wait a minute. Obama campaigned like crazy in Iowa. Won the caucuses big time. You barely set foot in the state. The people of Iowa take their caucuses very, very seriously. You insulted them. Make that 279 to 259. McCain: I still win. Schmidt: We're not done yet. Obama has been leading in New Mexico all year. State's full of Latinos. They preferred Clinton but they're still Democrats at heart. I think we're toast there. Now its 274 to 264. McCain: A win is a win. Still better than Florida was. Schmidt: Yeah, but now Obama is just 5 EVs short of a tie (which means it goes to the House and he'll win there) and 6 EVs short of a clean win. Look, there are six swing states this time: Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado, and Nevada. We have to win all six of them. Can't lose a single state or we're dead meat. McCain: I'm a fighter. You know that. The gooks couldn't break me. I'll campaign like hell in all six. Don't worry. Schmidt: I'm worried. We're 50-50 on all six. It's like flipping a coin six times and getting six heads. One chance in 64, roughly 2%. We have to do something dramatic. Something that will throw all calculations out the window. Something that completely shakes up everything. Something that gives us a fresh start. Gotta hit the RESET button. McCain: Have something in mind? Schmidt: Yeah. Pick a black or a woman for Veep. McCain: You mean I can't pick Joe? He's my friend and a great guy. Schmidt: Half the convention would walk out. Besides, Jews aren't a novelty any more. Thank Gore for that. McCain:. Shit. But blacks are fine with me. Colin Powell is a great American and one of the most respected people in the country. Schmidt: He doesn't want the job McCain: No sweat. Condi's the smartest woman I know. Mind like a bear trap. She'll run rings around Biden at the debate. She'll say: "I've been there. I talk to Putin every week. You're just an old windbag" Schmidt: She's got "BUSH III" emblazoned on her forehead. And Obama is a happily married man with two adorable little girls, Condi's a single black woman who is apparently not much into families. Won't work. What about Kay [Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)]? McCain: She's tired of the Washington rat race. She wants to go back to Texas. Be governor or something, you know like Ma Ferguson. Schmidt: Ma's husband, the governor, was impeached and convicted. Ann Richards would be a better role model. What other women do we have? McCain: Jodi [Rell] and Olympia [Snowe] are smart and popular but pro choice. The Base distrusts me already. They'd mutiny. Schmidt: Elizabeth Dole? Susan Collins? McCain: With either of those we lose a Senate seat. I don't want to have 60 Democrats to deal with over there. Reid might grow a spine. Can't encourage that. Schmidt: Lisa Murkowski? McCain: Her dad appointed her. She won on her own later, but I don't need to deal with nepotism and cronyism. Smells like Bush. I'm a maverick, remember? Schmidt: Got it. Some businesswomen? Sarah Palin? McCain: Carly [Fiorina] is great on economics, but she nearly she ran her company into the ground so the board fired her and then gave her $40 million so she wouldn't feel bad. The 20,000 people she fired aren't too keen on her. Meg Whitman did a fantastic job at eBay but nobody's ever heard of her. Schmidt: So Palin's the only one left? What about her? McCain: I met her once, at a governors meeting. Cute as a button. She ran for Miss Alaska. Came in second. I woulda voted for her. But it's a real Hail Mary pass. She's popular up north there where the sun never shines (except for some minor problems when she tried to fire her state trooper brother-in-law). She was pregnant with a Down syndrome baby and didn't abort him. The Base will love that. Her hobbies are riding her motorcycle and hunting moose. The coal miners in Appalachia will go wild over her. How fast can we print a million 8x10 color photos of her for their lockers? Schmidt: Fast. But what about her experience. I mean, she's only been governor a year and a half. What did she do before that? McCain: I think she was mayor of some village with six igloos. Who cares? I thi ? I think you're right we have to shake things up completely. Change the game. The Base will eat her up on abortion, the Hillary fans will see that we respect women (unlike their guy). We grab the mantle of reformers. The white guys will be transfixed by this hot chick who hunts moose. I get to be Maverick-in-chief. Sounds like a winner. Schmidt: What about the debate with Biden? What if the moderator says: "What would you do if Russia invaded Georgia again?" and she says: "I'll get on Air Force One and fly to Atlanta immediately." McCain: Most Americans can't find Georgia the state on a map, let alone Georgia the country. I'll get Lugar to tutor her on foreign policy. He knows everything about it. I'm sold. Let's go for it. Curtain falls.

    Answer:
    Who is Sara ,Palin She was elected Alaska 's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1 Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2 She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3 Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4 She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5 She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears a OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

    In their mid 40s and no money.?
    Question:
    I shared a house with a middle aged couple from West Virginia when I was living if Florida and they were barely getting by paycheck to paycheck. You tell what is wrong with that picture? I would think people in that age group would have some savings,knowing about handling money,They also had bad credit,got things like cars reposessed. I see no excuse for being that poor in mid life. The question-What is wrong with that picture? Are some people going to struggle all their life and things will never get better? Are a lot of people from appalachia that poor?

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    Before you condemn, learn. The 2005 poverty line for a family of 2 was $12,830 and that was averaged over the country. If you look at the history of plant closings, companies like Wal-Mart and Ford moving jobs off shore during the same time period, there were upwards job losses over 200,000 when calculated all together. Those jobs are gone for good, there is no 'we'll be back once the economy picks up'. Not everyone wants to own a business or can afford going back to college for a degree that may be meaningless once they are in debt up to their eye brows to pay for it. Appalachia isn't the only 'poor' area of this country, every city you name has a homeless shelter that entire families are sharing. Oh, and the new poverty guidelines are out - want to raise a family (husband, wife and 2 children) on $20,000 a year?


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