Hillary Clinton, Champion of Undereducated White Bigots
First, apologies to Clinton supporters who clearly are not undereducated white bigots. Second, apologies to West Virginians who are not undereducated white bigots.
After reading this article in the LA Times about the “troubles” West Virginia may give Barack Obama next Tuesday, I say good riddance to the 65+% of those polled who say they are voting for Clinton. Who would want to be associated with supporters who say things like:
“I’ve got 50-some guns, and I wasn’t crazy about Obama’s talk about small towns,” said Sam Vetter, 64, a farmer and lifelong Democrat who regrets voting for Bush in 2000. “Besides,” he added, “Obama just doesn’t sound right for an American president.”
Or how about this gem:
Hand-lettered campaign signs promoting Democrats running for family-court judge and assessor cluster along Hardy County’s winding roads. There are only a few signs for either Obama or Clinton, but in one yard, a placard with a red slash on it mocks, “Osama, Obama and Chelsea’s Mama.”
The sign belongs to Eric Hardy, 38, a former Democrat who works at a woodworking plant. Now a die-hard Republican and president of the West Virginia Coon Hunters Assn., Hardy opposes any Democrat “who wants to go after my guns.”
Obama “takes the cake,” he said, “because of, you know, who he is.” He suspects Obama for his “Muslim name,” and comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., rankle him. “He’s just a mistake any way you look at him,” Hardy said.
Yo! Chelsea’s Mama! You can have ‘em, the whole lot of ‘em, all. Go off to West Virginia and talk about how many times your papa took you coon hunting when you were a kid, knock back a few beers, crack a few racist jokes, and you’re sure to crush Obama in the West Virginia primary. I see no pride in winning a state that where so-called Democrats are gun-toting, socially backward bigots. I would actually be embarrassed if Obama won West Virginia….