Posted on 09/07/2009 5:14:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - They've heard it all beforethe tanking economy, the bleeding of jobs, the creeping hardship that never seems to ebb. And the desperate hope that hangs over everything and whispers that maybe, just maybe, tomorrow might be a tiny bit better.
In the river valley where Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia meet, the anticipation of change never really goes away. Because of that, it seems, people still are willing to give Barack Obama a chance as he maneuvers through the murkiness of a nation in transformation.
"No one is feeling satisfied with the state of the country," Derek Duffee says from behind his coffee bar's counter in Pennsylvania's Washington. "I don't know if what he's doing will work, but he's trying," says Miyoshi Braxton, an Obama fan smoking on a park bench outside her downtown apartment building in Steubenville, Ohio.
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Zero and his handlers will eventually rue the day they ok’d that graphic poster - being totally clueless as to how “workable” it’s become.
He's trying? Yeah, so are all his marxist comrades.
Try voting out the libtards. Jeeze these folks never get it. Its been a jobless rustbelt for 30 years.
Now watch YTown vote Trafficant back in.
They never learn.
He’s the only one YOU got! Hang on the ship is sinking.
Pa . Years of eating rust has caught up..
-Stephen King, in IT
Quite frankly, I got tired of seeing Zero’s picture everywhere in December.
“...... through the murkiness of a nation in transformation.”
They will see far more than a nation in transformation, if Obama and his idiots keep trying to tear down our country.
Washington, Pa. is in very tough shape. Sad to see.
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