Where the hell is Hillary Clinton from?! NY, PA, IL, AR?

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Where the hell is Hillary Clinton from?! NY, PA, IL, AR?

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Hillary Clinton wants you to believe that she is from Illinois...er Scranton,PA...wait, she's a Senator from New York, right? Don't forget Arkansas! -------------------------------------------- Poor, rural, working-class white folks in Appalachia didn't vote for the rich urban former law professor senator from Chicago. They went for the rich urban former law professor senator born in Chicago instead. But since the vote went so overwhelmingly in one direction rather than the other, and rich urban former law professor senators with Chicago ties are otherwise largely interchangeable, there has to be another controlling factor here. I can't think what it might be, though. Maybe it will come to me if I think about it. Oh, wait, I know now. Poor, rural, working-class white folks from Appalachia wanted to strike a blow for feminism. Well, way to go, West Virginia! You've certainly done that. And now, clearly, you've shown that you're the most feminist state in all the union. And to think they once said it couldn't happen there! They said that poor, rural, working-class folk such as yourself could never vote for a woman to be a presidential nominee, barring something being monstrously and unspeakably wrong with her opponent, perhaps at the genetic level. Well, you showed them, West Virginia. You showed them all. Your reward is to have Gloria Steinem build a summer home in your borders, possibly in Mingo County, which, with a vote that went 88% for Clinton — a staggering 11 times what Obama got in that county — is inarguably the single most feminist-friendly county in the entire state. Heck, Gloria's got the U-Haul ready; maybe she'll live there all the time now. Maybe she'll bring her friends. Quick, have the menfolk bake a welcoming apple pie. Tell them not to skimp on the cinnamon. You know men. Always skimping, they are.I'm so proud of you, West Virginia, you glorious feminist paradise, you Full article: http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=750 Why does Obama, the one with the bumpy background and mixed racial heritage, the one raised by a single mother who was on food stamps, seem so forced when he mingles with the common folk? Karl Rove and other Republicans say he comes across as the snooty product of a Hawaiian prep school, Cambridge, Columbia and Hyde Park, and that is what led to the damaging anthropological "bitter" disquisition. Yet George H. W. Bush's attempts to paint over his patrician style with a cowboy veneer was a silly sort of masquerade, obviously engineered by Lee Atwater, who brought the props of pork rinds and country music. Voters also don't seem to mind Hillary, with her $109 million bank account, selling herself as the champion of the little people. The blue-collar queen shared her thoughts about the "outrageous" Rev. Wright with the blue-collar king, Bill O'Reilly, last week. In reality, as first lady, Hillary was renowned for her upstairs-downstairs tussles in the White House, and her high-handed treatment of the little people in the travel office, on the switchboard and on the residence staff. The reports were legend about the Clintons' problems with the Secret Service, and I once saw Bill dress down an agent in a humiliating way over a couple of autograph seekers who got past a rope line in Orange County, Calif. Obama, on the other hand, may seem esoteric, and sometimes looks haughty or put-upon when he should merely offer that ensorcelling smile. But he is very well liked by his Secret Service agents, and shoots hoops with them. And I watched him take the time one night after a long day of campaigning to stand and take individual pictures with a squadron of Dallas motorcycle police officers on the tarmac. It must be hard for Obama, having applied all his energy over the years to rising above the rough spots in his background, making whites comfortable with him, striving to become the sophisticated, silky political star who looks supremely comfortable in a tux. Now he must go into reverse and stoop to conquer with cornball photo ops. "I do think that one of the ironies of the last two or three weeks was this idea that somehow Michelle and I are elitist, pointy-headed intellectual types," he said, adding sincerely, "I filled up my own gas tanks." Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04dowd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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AntiConformist911

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Barack, Obama, Hillary, Clinton, Kentucky, Oregon, democrat, race, card, NAFTA, Keith, olbermann, elite, john, Mccain, edwards, bitter,