From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>>>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>>>Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>>>>>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>bryan_styble  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>>>* Yes, I'm aware that a good while back The CBS Evening News   
   >>>>>>>>relocated to the District of Columbia its flagship studio.   
   >>>>>>>>That was indeed an easy but still bold network decision which now   
   >>>>>>>>distinguishes that polished CBS production from the less-burnished   
   >>>>>>>>Muir- and Holt-helmed newscasts O'Donnell is head-to-head against.   
   >>>>>>>>And it was a shift I applauded when it happened because, why   
   >>>>>>>>SHOULDN'T a national newscast be situated in the national capital?   
   >>>>>>>>But O'Donnell's bosses' offices DO remain high up there on some   
   >>>>>>>>double-digit floor of Black Rock.   
      
   >>>>>>>I am always resentful when the national headquarters of anything   
   >>>>>>>decamps from the country's original capital to that jury-rigged   
   >>>>>>>Johnny-come-lately fractional-size city on the Potomac.   
      
   >>>>>>You refuse to recognize Philadelphia? bonk   
      
   >>>>>I am not aware of any particular trend of national organizations   
   >>>>>moving their headquarters from New York to Philadelphia,even if it   
   >>>>>sometimes happens,and it is less objectionable to me than relocations   
   >>>>>to Washington.   
      
   >>>>I'm pointing out that while the seat of national government was in a   
   >>>>number of places temporarily before Washington DC was established,   
   >>>>including New York, the Continental Congress sat at Philadelphia when   
   >>>>the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776 and when the Articles of   
   >>>>Confederation were debated.   
      
   >>>>New York was not the country's original capital.   
      
   >>>It was the first CONSTITUTIONAL capital.   
      
   >>>Where the first president of the USA (of the constitutional   
   >>>and not congressional variety) was inaugurated.   
      
   >>The constitution of 1789 was our nation's SECOND constitution.   
      
   >>Now you're not recognizing the Articles of Confederation as our nation's   
   >>first constitution?   
      
   >Do the articles declare themselves to be a Constitution?   
      
   You don't get to declare the organic document not a constitution.   
      
   >And they provided for a president who was presiding officer of   
   >the Congress,not an executive.   
      
   What does that matter? A nation's capital is where its legislature sits.   
   There are nations in which the head of state may have a palace   
   elsewhere, although head of government invariably sits in the capital   
   city or adjacent to it.   
      
   >>. . .   
      
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