Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned

From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

http://faeriekeeper.net/poetry9.htm#BreathesThereTheMan

BTW, this poem is referenced and quoted, in part, by Andie McDowell’s character in ‘Groundhog Day’.

Cincinnati tends toward the Republicans, but right now the mayor is a Democrat.

As I wrote above, the cities versus the small towns and countryside have been the usual source of the schizoid politics. Things need to be fairly awful for things to change: RINO Governor Taft damaged Republicans by increasing taxes and spending and with scandals. His Democrat successor, blamed for companies leaving the state, was booted out after one term by Kasich, who could easily be booted out after one term as well, since companies continue to leave or go bankrupt, and because of union anger.

With Indiana now a right-to-work state, that should mean that Ohio must follow suit: nary a word from the state RINO’s! They are still afraid after the Issue 5 loss to the unions and Dem operatives.

Whether the anti-incumbent sentiment will apply to MAObama…who knows?

I’m sure there has to be a State Party with more internal fighting right now than the Ohio Republican party, but there aren’t many and I don’t think they are in states that are that Purple…

I’m really not sure what happens if Ohio becomes a reliably Democratic State, The map gets really ugly…

The girlfriend was a composite – he now admits, because the girl in question was interviewed and ‘bum had to fess up that she was a composite of several girls.

For all we know, his ‘father’ that he has ‘dreams from’ is a composite of Frank Marshall Davis, Malcolm X and Kenyan Obama. Two of the three were in Seattle (where Mommy Ann was) when she became pregnant. Kenyan Obama was tending to his other wives and girlfriends at that time.

Ann’s parent, as well as Frank Marshall Davis, belonged to the Seattle Branch of the Socialist Workers Party in Seattle.

I would be surprised if they made it all the way to the second paragraph.

Even cities ruined by Dem policies (Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown, Dayton) continue to be true believers, but that is typical throughout the country with such areas (Detroit being the main example).

Rural and small-town Ohio seems to have better sense, but they are not a majority of the population.

Here in Columbus, affluent areas which sprouted Obama signs last year are remarkably devoid (so far) of such images. To be sure, I have seen only one “ROMNEY” bumper sticker, but saw more Ron Paul signs during the primary!

Ultimately it is still difficult to predict, but one warnng: Governor Kasich’s completely wrong-headed non-campaign to preserve his bill to whittle down the power of public-sector unions crashed and burned last November, with 2/3 voting pro-union.

That was the result of a relentless pro-union propaganda campaign of lies and half-truths, against which Kasich and the RINO’s runnng the Republican Party here were basically speechless.

Will that all be repeated to help re-elect MAObama?

But the NYT won’t ever run that story. In the fight to “Save The Planet From Global Warming” ™, such communities are just collateral damage.

The only thing we need to show is that he is a man of little moral courage, little belief in the American dream, and little competency to lead America through the next four years.