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Supersonics Moving to Oklahoma City, Oh Man
Professional basketball in the form of the stolen Seattle Supersonics is moving to down town Oklahoma City. Sorry Bartcop but this one is just ridiculous.
The Sonics have played basketball in Seattle since 1967. Seattle is considered to a big market town. Oklahoma City is not. So why would you move a relatively successful franchise move out of a big market city and drop it into Oklahoma? Because the new owner of the Sonics, one Clay Bennett, pulled a fast one on the city of Seattle.
Bennett claimed when he bought the team in 2006 he would do everything in his power to keep the team in Seattle. At issue is the aging Key Center where the Sonics play. According to his agreement with former owner Howard Shultz, Bennett was to deal with the arena issue. Yet emails between himself and his partners show that they had every intention from day one of moving the team to his hometown of Oklahoma City.
What is amazing is the fact that the NBA owners approved this move. Bye Bye Seattle hello Oklahoma City. Pro basketball in Oklahoma, good luck.
Frank Herbert: The Democrats’ Road Map to Defeat
Frank Herbert, The New York Times, April 19, 2008
The Democrats are doing everything they can to blow this presidential election. This is a skill that comes naturally to the party. There is no such thing as a can’t-miss year for the Democrats. They are truly gifted at finding ways to lose.
Jimmy Carter managed to win the White House in 1976 by looking pious and riding a wave of anti-Watergate revulsion. After four hapless years, he dutifully handed the keys back to the G.O.P.
Bill Clinton tried hard to lose, with sex scandals and whatnot, during the 1992 campaign. But Ross Perot wouldn’t let him. Mr. Clinton won with a piddling 43 percent of the vote. For eight years, Mr. Clinton tried to throw the presidency away (with sex scandals and whatnot), but he was never able to succeed.
That’s been it for the party for the past 40 years. The Democrats have become so psychologically battered by these many decades in the leadership wilderness that they consider the Clinton years, during which the president was impeached and they lost control of both houses of Congress, to have been a period of triumph.
Now comes 2008, a can’t-lose year if there ever was one. A united Democratic Party should be able to win this election in a walk. The economy is terrible and getting worse. The Republicans are demoralized. John McCain is no J.F.K. And the country wants to elect a Democrat.
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