It’s good to hear her talk about gas prices. They’re killing us,” said Donna Madden, 45, a part-time high school cafeteria employee from Clear Fork. “She’s an American, a real American. It’s just good to know that she has the same ancestors as us, that her family goes back for generations and generations and generations
I’m not angry at Donna Madden. I feel sorry for her.
What makes this funny is that Sen. Obama actually DOES have West Virginia roots, of a sort. His Great Great Great Grandfather, Jacob Mackey Dunham was born 7 May 1824 in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
I wonder if Sen. Clinton is proud of her largely racist, uneducated and clearly uninformed base.
I was going to wait until all the polls were in before I made a post, and Indiana has just been called for Sen. Clinton.
North Carolina was expected to go for Sen. Obama, and it did in a resounding fashion, 56% - 42%. Indiana was expected to go for Sen. Clinton by several percent, and it is basically tied. We’re talking about a delegate or two between them in Indiana. Sen. Obama has effectively washed out Sen. Clinton’s gains from Pennsylvania.
A lot of folks are now expecting Sen. Clinton to step out of the race this week, but I think I’m just a little more cynical. I don’t see her stepping aside when she has a basically guaranteed win in West Virginia. I think she stays in at least through that contest and hopes for an Obama gaffe, or that the media latches on to another lapel pin or Wright non-issue. She’s out of money — barring a huge fundraising announcement from April — but I just don’t think she’ll suddenly decide she can’t win and step aside. A clear Clinton victory has been a long shot for some time. She has been “moving the goal posts” for quite a while, with Michigan, Florida, “more votes by people who have voted,” the legitimacy of caucuses versus primaries, etc. With a win (however minor) in Indiana, I can’t see her stepping aside. I am hoping I am wrong because every day she is in this race is a distraction from the attention that should be being paid to going after McCain. He’s currently getting a free pass.
Here’s a good article from The Huffington Post, before I come off too much like a hater: It’s Not About Hating Hillary
One of Clinton’s laws of politics is, if one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to make you think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears, and the other one’s appealing to your hopes,” he said. “You better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.
~ William Jefferson Clinton, while campaigning for John Kerry in 2004
I wish we had an Obama in every Senate and House seat, and in the White House. Where are the leaders that tell it like it is instead of playing to our fears, playing to our ignorances or pretending we’re ignorant, and pandering to the lowest common denominator?
What we need are real leaders with real solutions for real change. Not just at the top office, but everywhere through our government.
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