PORTLAND TRIBUNE, 2/11/2011 by By Jim Redden - "Governor says trip will spotlight high-tech future: President Obama will travel to Oregon and visit the Intel Corp. campus in Hillsboro on Friday, Feb. 18. ∴ Gov. John Kitzhaber welcomed the visit, saying it demonstrated the president’s interest in the state’s new strategies for job creation and ensuring long-term competitiveness."Read more at the Portland Tribune...
- COMMENT: Re: Obama coming to Oregon ∴ Why am I NOT overjoyed? ∴ Others will say this far better than I, but I must say it. And I cannot say this strongly enough. ∴ This city is considered the Bluest of the Blue, only because the rest of the state and a great portion of the local electorate are totally dismissed and even worked over by Portland's local, state, and regional governments. ∴ A great many of the people I meet will open up to tell me they believe, they know and fully understand, that we live in not just a liberal, but a hostile-liberal environment. ∴ You cannot have a real "conversation with Oregon" if you lock half the people out, and meet with your own clique behind the closed doors of your echo chamber. ∴ Frankly, that is not American. It is not like really the Oregon I knew and loved. ∴ This has come a long way, and cannot be corrected by a couple of group hugs. "We" have crossed too many big rivers for that. ∴ But it is what we've had these last couple of decades. --Jerry
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