Tuesday, April 22, 2008

OK, Here's Pennsylvania's Primary at Last

Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe newsman, just said something really funny on Morning Joe. He said (I'm paraphrasing) that even if Barack Obama ultimately wins the Presidency and is in a limo going down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, the Clintons will be there, throwing down strips of nails to disable the limo...they just won't give up!

I'm amazed at the image being portrayed of Pennsylvania during this election, and particularly that Hillary, who should know better, is playing into it so voraciously. She's been trying to appeal to voters in Pennsylvania by pretending that she's a beer-guzzling, gun-toting hick. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and I know that this characterization is totally skewed. Sure there's a T-shaped demographic there that suffers more than most from poverty, but you don't have to play hick to get along with folks who like to hunt, fish and drink beer.

How did it happen that the Wellesley graduate reinvents herself as a working man's hero, and the street smart, albeit beautifully educated guy, who really did get down in the trenches and jive in Chicago, is now considered too urbane and elitist to win the common man's vote? It's a skewed racism played to the hilt by the Clintons! It's not really that she's the working man's hero, or a woman, she's been playing some kind of crazy white card in Pennsylvania,I just can't figure it out.

I still haven't been able to wear my Obama t-shirt, and I would never wear a Hillary one, she's sold her soul. So much depends on the Vice-Presidential candidates who are eventually chosen in each party. For now I'm lost but then may be found. Maybe we'll all be surprised and educated tonight when we find out what Barack's nine million dollar campaign in Pennsylvania could or could not do.

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