Despite the doomsday tones that some in the blogosphere and in more traditional media circles took in their assessment of Hillary Clinton’s chances of nabbing the Democratic nomination after last Tuesday’s primaries, supporters have flocked to West Virginia. They are working hard there to keep their favorite candidate in the running, even if it means dealing with heckling from some locals who don’t share their mission.
The Washington Post:
“It’s doable, really,” said Mary Bell, a 56-year-old retired lawyer from Shepherdstown. “We’ll take it one week at a time, just like she’s doing. Obama might not be tough enough for this job, and she’s proving she’s a fighter. It’s the little things, like getting out on the street and showing support, that can help you win this campaign one day at a time.”
They arranged themselves at the intersection in a way that no passerby could possibly ignore them. Lisa Florek, a 39-year-old from Charles Town, W.Va., held up two cardboard signs and chanted Clinton’s name. Gerrie Nussdorf, a volunteer from New York, offered each driver a sticker.
Smith and Kuzma stood behind a 10-foot-long sign and listened to a developing pattern. Trucks headed out of town honked in support and encouragement. Compacts destined for the college or the nearby coffee shop slowed down and offered very different suggestions.
“Give up already,” shouted a woman in a red jeep.
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By PatrickHenry, May 12, 2008 at 12:45 pm #
jacksmith,
“MY FELLOW BITTER, STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE”
Serious self esteem issues here, whats with all the smiley’s?
P.S. You are an idiot.
Report thisBy Aegrus, May 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm #
You’re uninformed. Unlike you, I know all sides to this election debate like the back of my hand, and have chosen my favored candidate to be Obama. You don’t have any place in calling me narrow-minded while simultaneously touting jackie-boy’s homogeneous anti-Obama spam, which is mostly derived from opinion.
If you want to vote based on loosely interpreted facts, speculation and character assassination, that’s your right as a voter. Don’t pretend, however, that you have any real knowledge on the subject. You and all the other people with Hillary Blinders on are armchair Democrats who have little concern for acquainting yourselves with broad and varied sources of fact and opinion.
There are some brilliant people who have good reasons to vote for Hillary Clinton, and I’ve met them face-to-face. You and Jacksmith are not equal to their caliber. Rude, fanatical, Hillary blinders. I had never thought before such hatred could be present for two center-liberal candidates with high positives and practical policy agendas.
You’re voting for Obama in the Fall.
Report thisBy Sue Cook, May 12, 2008 at 12:33 pm #
I’m on your side! After all, there are two sides to every story, every opinion, and those NON-narrow-minded, unlike Aergus, and Cryena.
Report thisBy cyrena, May 11, 2008 at 8:33 pm #
Not only that Aegrus, but he’s a moronic troll who keeps posting this same shit all over the internet. I’m truly sick of him.
Report thisBy Aegrus, May 11, 2008 at 2:23 pm #
You’re a real sad person because not only is everything you say scant on validity, but Hillary has lost the nomination fight. She lost it on Super Tuesday.
Report thisBy Aegrus, May 11, 2008 at 2:20 pm #
That’s really sad. Really, really sad. If Hillary was a fighter, she would be the nominee by now. She’s an also ran. Her campaign is a farce. A joke. Mike Gravel is still running too, you know.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 11, 2008 at 1:35 pm #
I guess Hillary will do well here, these are the same yokels who keep sending Sen Byrd back every election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
This guy represents the need for term limits and how by his simple longitivity in government can fuck it up for residents of other states.
He’s our newest Strom Thurmon.
Report thisBy Hammo, May 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm #
Times may be a changin’, even in the hills of West Virgina and Kentucky.
Hillary’s efforts to use the issue of Obama’s mixed-ethnicity background are sad—both on her part, and that she expects (and wants to encourage) ethnic predjudice to help her win the Dem nomination.
This is an opportunity for the people of West Virginia and Kentucky to shed the image of backwards hillbillies and show the rest of the country that they have intelligence and solid instincts about what is best for themselves and for our society.
And it is a two-way street. The Obama campaign should reach out in a straightforward way to West Virginians and Kentuckians, as well as all kinds of citizens.
Related elements are explored in the article:
“Many in West Virginia, Kentucky might ‘kin’ Obama” (May 10, 2008)
http://americanchronicle.com/articles/61415
The piece also appears on the author’s blog at:
http://jointreconstudygroup.blogspot.com/
Report thisBy jacksmith, May 11, 2008 at 12:42 pm #
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MY FELLOW “BITTER”, STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE
If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of “BITTER”!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose
husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salarys than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton.
Best regards
jacksmith… Working Class
p.s. You Might Be An Idiot!
If you don’t know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering…
You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year.
Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries dont die from. And I could go on, and on…
OBAMA AIDE: “WORKING-CLASS VOTERS NOT KEY FOR DEMOCRATS” :o
p.s. I have been under heavy attacks for some time now. But it wont stop me.
Report thisBy Outraged, May 11, 2008 at 3:19 am #
It’s definitely apt that we’d experience, as the headline READS “In W.Va., Clinton’s Disciples Persevere”. What would you expect..? This is where her “disciples” are…
“Sean Hannity has called Obama’s church a “cult,” but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton’s “Family,” which is organized into “cells”—their term—and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in NORTHERN VIRGINIA (emphasis mine). In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family’s home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power…..”
.....it’s up to Clinton to explain—or, better yet, renounce—her long-standing connection with the fascist-leaning Family.”
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich
Correct me if I’m wrong isn’t WEST VIRGINIA a stone’s throw from “NORTHERN VIRGINIA”...? So really, it’s no wonder we see these radicals throwing a log into the fire.
Oh… I almost forgot. Another point from the same article: “Clinton’s involvement to the under-appreciated depth of her religiosity, but he himself struggles to define The Family’s theological underpinnings. The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the “meek.” They believe that, in mass societies, it’s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God’s “dominion” on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it’s all about power—cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or “cells.”
Sounds TERRORIST to me… What a nut-case..!
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