Anderson's Culture of Negativity

It's funny you would pick this topic and person.  I made no comment on allllllllll of those articles about Bailey(hope I got that right). There was a BHP student(Taylor Fitch) who won Miss America Outstanding Teen recently.  She got a $31 thous scholarship and barely got a mention, while the other girl seems to be in almost every paper recently.

I don't think the comments were supposed to be negative. You know the phrases--run it into the ground, beat a dead horse, tooo much of a good thing.  Just think they might come into play.

SSHM.  you of all people did bring a smile to my face by posting this topic.  (BTW, am I making you about die as you spit out your drink again--I can only hope.)

 I wholeheartedly agree that whether or not the 'intent' was to be negative, negative it is!  SHAME, SHAME! 

Congratulations Bailey!  May your star burn brightly, your talent improve as a fine wine and your human spirit and abilitiy grow in such a manner as to bring honor not only to yourself, but also your family and your hometown .  God speed!

Spring, you just proved my point.  What do you know about Taylor?  She is another young woman who can be proud(for her brains) and I didn't see you now congratulate her.  Is she not politically correct?  Bailey is quickly becoming a worn out tune.  And Spring,  you just lost any credibility with that sappy nonsense.(not typical for you)  Write a book.....

I will always remember when cindi asked in open session, in refernce to one of the "pie in the sky" plans ..

"who do we think we are to want to build such a thing?"...

that quote truly summed up the entire joey/cind/rick driver 3-some...

joey actually thinks we can aspire to be something different than we were, while cindi thinks we should be content to remain sleepy agrarian mill towns with rich landed gentry (her term...not mine) living on ancestral homeplaces (again..her term) benevolently guiding the rest

This town, and for that matter this FORUM, loves it's miserability and disharmony!  We could be named nicest city in America and I'd bet dollars to donuts that about 1/3 of this crowd would say we cheated, bought the vote, bribed the judges, weren't fairly conducted or some other crap.  The Driver crowd would want a recount, MCW would say her part of town wasn't included and we should do an audit of the voting, and the whole story would be buried in the back of the HOMETOWNER section instead of front page. Sure, the Bailey Hanks newsprint IS a bit much, but WHAT the heck else do we have to be proud of?  A nasty political environment?  Poor business environment? Clemson football ( gag!)?  Plastic fishies all over downtown?  Someone finally makes it big and folks bash her and degrade her voice ( guess it's good enuf for New Yawk City folks)

Ive not encountered more disenchanted and skewed thinkers than around here....maybe it in the water?

Looking forward to the aftermath of the weekend's festivities from the Ballonfest, BBQ cook-off and gamac concerts.  Can only imagine t he b*tching, whining and negative comments ( oh, there was clouds during the launch....I couldn't  get a fresh funnelcake!..he BBQ plates were too expensive.....I couldn't find the beer cart!)

Confused...

I guess, in retrospect...her comment wasnt "negative"... I just viewed it as such, because it showed a perspective towards anderson that says we dont deserve good things, or have the right to aspire to be as good as anyone else....which i see as a negative comment..

that is the attitude that attacks anyone who raises above the median..who is "better than average" or who shines above the rest..

"who do we think we are".... sums up her view so well and explains why she isagainst anything and everything.. she dosnt believe that we deserve to be viewed as progressive...or cutting edge in anything...

just my perspective..