A league of his own?

President Barack Obama visited Princeton, Indiana today but it's doubtful that many the town's 8,644 residents were much impressed by his presence. Little Princeton has seen big shots come and go. Obama was a lightweight in a town of heavy hitters. It is the birth place of one of baseball's heaviest hitters, Gil Hodges who played for and managed the Brooklyn Dodgers and is often judged as the most affable man to ever play the game. Wendy's founder Dave Thomas lived there for part of his youth and early manhood and worked at the local Western Auto store. Throughout his career he appeared in over 800 television commercials to promote his restaurant chain and was never known to use a teleprompter.
Another well known resident was an agronomist from Brazil, Indiana,  William Joseph ( Orville) Redenbacher who managed to take a local popcorn packager, Princeton Farms, to a national brand bearing his family's name.
Princeton's latest contribution to national greatness resides in the political rather than the business community in the person of Sydney Leathers, the cyber paramour of Carlos Danger a.k.a. Anthony Weiner. When teamed with Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the former call girl of client # 9, Eliot Spitzer, the two women exerted a larger influence on the New York politics than either Barack Obama or the whole damn Clinton family. Alas, even Leathers' greatness has its limits. As her porn movie and blogging careers have gone south the loyal supporter of Wendy Davis has become the subject of a vicious rumor in her own hometown. She is not one of us! Many Princeton residents now openly state that Leathers is actually a resident of Mount Carmel, Illinois a tiny town 5 miles down US 64 and across the Wabash River.
Clearly, history's greatest teleprompter reader was out of his league in Princeton.