Posted on 04/25/2010 5:27:01 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
Okay, maybe the Obamas’ Asheville, N.C., trip is just a romantic getaway and a chance to grab some 12 Bones BBQ, as the White House suggests.
But you know something is going on when even the local “tea party” affiliate welcomes Obama to their “mountain paradise.”
Critics like Hoover Institution fellow Shelby Steele have complained that Obama’s “ultimate vision, he has not been very clear about.”
So given that the Obama’s “kind of fell in love” with the Buncombe County burg during a debate prep visit during the 2008 campaign, could Asheville itself be a clue to what the President is thinking when he talks about “transforming” America?
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Asheville = The Santa Fe wannabe of the south
They wannabe, they try, they fail.
Don’t give credit to the very thin veneer covering the failure
By the way, do you know why God made the sky Carolina Blue?
Because he hadn’t been to new Mexico yet
12 bones = blueberry chipotle barbe q sauce.
A New Yorker carpet bagging refugee tries to do something fancy and impossibly, screws up good ribs
Stayed there a few days a couple of years back. Great place. I liked the old car museum a lot. Other than that, I never cared for Asheville all that much. Growing up, I went through the Asheville area a lot to visit my grandparents. Back in the 70s & 80s, it seemed so dreary and run down.
Someone should take out a super-conservative billboard right smack-dab in the middle of their hottest hotspot.
(Communist tree huggers probably don’t allow billboards anyway, but it’d be funny.)
Me too, not far from where 'Deliverance' was filmed. Progressives aren't much welcomed here. Where the heck is Asheville anyway?
But it won’t. The idiot leftist population has reached critical mass. They will ALWAYS believe what dear leader tells them.
Almost looks like fun until you remember that generally there’s a fair number of bugs and ants going up and down those limbs ... ;-)
“Me too, not far from where ‘Deliverance’ was filmed. Progressives aren’t much welcomed here. Where the heck is Asheville anyway?”
.....I’m up in the corner where NC-VA-TN all come together...we’re just trying to get some jobs going...we’re at 15% unemployment...folks here don’t have much time to worry about ‘progressive’ ideas...they’re just trying to get by.
> “Of course using those trails will be impossible because of the reintroduction of cougars, bears, wolves, and bobcats.” <
“...reintroduction of cougars, bears, wolves, bobcats and MOONBATS.”
I went to a conference in Asheville about 8 yrs ago. Stayed at some nice hotel. Found a blood stained towel hanging out from between the mattress and box spring.
> “But it won’t. The idiot leftist population has reached critical mass. They will ALWAYS believe what dear leader tells them.” <
My youngest attended UNC at Asheville, was graduated and worked there for a year and a half. He was “downsized” and has returned home.
When he left for college and Asheville in 2004, he was conservative. I now have him in my personal 12 Step Asheville Recovery Program.
http://www.newfrontier.com/aha/ashv0492.htm
Been going on for many years - we must have missed it;) LOL!
What happens in reality is this.
And this...
This is how many of the non-elites live in socialist Europe. These commie blocks are everywhere, in every Euro city en masse. Large or small.
To paraphrase MT, a good hike spoilt.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now it's full of Californicating Trustafarians, “film people”, fags, and phony gurus that have insinuated their way into local/state/regional politics and turned it into another declining-economy (which doesn't matter when you have Daddy's money) liberal Mecca, run by idealistic idiots.
"...What - there're no Golf courses? We simply must have Country Clubs!!! Build them!!! Where are the race tracks - we need ponies!!! Build them!!! No casinos? Don't be provincial - it's good business for the tribes!!! Build them!!! Water??? WATER???? Don't be absurd, there's a whole river full of water, right over there.
OH NO!!! Where did all these damned ordinary people come from? Those people are going to build their stupid little house right in front of MY view of the mountains - in full view of my pool! What will my friends from Manhattan think? The nerve! These New Mexicans are so backwards... I'm moving to Asheville!!!! Or maybe New Hope.... At least THEY are enlightened.... At least their food won't make my "partner" cry..."
Sadly, so many tourists are stupid enough to believe the hype (apparently even Presidential tourists), and spend piles of money on contrived caricatures of images that never really existed, that it chugs along on their money (and as much as they hate to admit it, the $2 billion a year that LANL pumps into the NM economy certainly helps keep it afloat).
The sunsets are still nice though...
BTW, I'm pretty sure God was born in New Mexico. I've met him there many times - just never in Santa Fe. ;<{)
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