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...Born the second of four children in 1956 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist grew up in St. Petersburg, FL, the grandson of immigrants. His last name - often mispronounced "Christ" - is the Anglicized version of the Greek name "Christodoulou...
...Obama set up a row of false choices to knock down like so many bowling pins - though this time his arm was better than it was back at the Altoona bowling alley earlier this year. "We don't need bigger government or smaller government," he said. "We need a better government." On taxes: "The choice in this election isn't between tax cuts and no tax cuts," it's whether we reward wealth or work. On education, the choice isn't more money or more reform - "our schools need both." And on the war, the choice isn't isolation...
...date on the flood zones, evacuation orders, and road closures (including portions of Interstate 80); looking at wrenching images of flood scenes near and far: a woman crying on her Des Moines doorstep as she's told to evacuate; a couple row-boating through their mobile home park in Altoona; an Iowa City police officer wading through water with a little boy on his shoulders; an astonishing aerial view of downtown Cedar Rapids where downtown buildings look like rafts in an ocean. But mostly, my fellow sandbaggers work quietly, diligently, steadily, shoveling sand, filling bags, heaving them into piles...
...sentiment prevails. We want from our leaders not an aristocrat’s aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...
...ALTOONA, PA. Obama ribbed over low score at a bowling-alley campaign stop...