Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell apparently thinks that the United States is a "nation of wussies," according to his comments made on radio station 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia, because the NFL decided to cancel Sunday night's Eagles-Vinkings game. Since when is it "tough" or a sign of strength to drive your car through blizzard conditions to attend a three hour football game in the freezing cold? It would have been reckless to play that game and put tens of thousands of people in danger. But, then again, the sight of fans shoveling the two feet of snow surrounding their cars in the parking lot would have made Ed Rendell proud to be an American.
Governor Rendell also thinks that the Chinese "would have been marching down to the stadium." Maybe he forgot about the winter storm in southern China during 2008 that put trains to a screaching halt. Rendell would be surprised to find out that 200,000 Chinese choose to stay in train stations rather than march to their final destinations.
He also found a correlation between canceling the football game due to snow and the fact that "the Chinese are kicking our butt in everything," as he likes to put it. Well, maybe China is on the rise because their political system affords it the ability to institute laws, policies and adjustments to national agendas without the partisan infighting that makes for great television in the United States. That does not make China strong, it just gives it citizens less of a voice in the political process.
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