struggle4progress
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:18 PM
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Alaska's population is about 700 000. If your state has a city that size, you've got a soundbite: |
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"Being governor of Alaska for a year and half is like being mayor of <city X> for a year and a half. It's not adequate experience"
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:19 PM
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1. That's much bigger than any city here, but I see what you are saying |
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:20 PM
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2. That's like one neighborhood in Brooklyn.... |
norepubsin08
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:21 PM
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3. Pierce County Washington |
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:22 PM
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4. That less than the metro area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:22 PM
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5. She was mayor of Wasilla, pop 8400 |
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Modoc County, California has more people.
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:27 PM
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11. Wow! If that isn't experience, then I don't know what is!! |
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:23 PM
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6. I now live in Detroit...900,000 population...Kwame Kilpatrick good |
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enough to be vp...it's even closer to Canada (foreign relations experience) than Alaska is to Russia...hey, somebody take him off our hands!
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:23 PM
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:23 PM
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8. When I was a small child |
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My family lived in Frankfurt...early one June morning we flew to Berlin and saw John F. Kennedy speak..there were more people there to hear him speak, than there are in all of Alaska!
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:25 PM
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9. jinx.. I posted almost the same thing.. gmta.. D U is so slow |
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It took forever to refresh the page.. i did not see yours ..sorry :)
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:26 PM
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10. But how many of those 700,000 are moose? |
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:29 PM
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12. The cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul together are ~700,000 |
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Seriously, there are only a handful of cities whose population is over 500,000 in the US.
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Fri Aug-29-08 12:29 PM
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13. Detroit between 700,000 and a million and I don't think anyone would ever ask Kwame |
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Edited on Fri Aug-29-08 12:29 PM by notadmblnd
Killpatrick to run as VP.
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