Letters to the Editor
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You can't win them all
This nation's Original Sin (as Condi put it) still has remnants even to this day. As a black person living in rural area (but who came from a city) I am well aware of people with attitudes like this. They're typically decent folks, but they cannot get over the things they were taught all their lives. Most of them know or think its an incorrect viewpoint and maybe they're wrong but they just can't get used to it any other way.
It happens mostly with white folks but also with black folks too.
No matter. If anything, we are a nation that is evolving and catching up to the the post-racial attitudes in some of the more 'civilized' places in the world. Its our only hope if we are going to be able to remain a viable and powerful influence in this world.
In another 10 or 15 years this will all be a thing (almost) of the past.
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Very few delegates
I don't think Hillary is going to win it as big as predicted. She She may may win by 10 =12 pt, not 20, maybe less than double digits. After all WV does have some educated folks too, and Obama supporters have been making calls into the WV state or the past week. Hillary makes it out to be a bell water state. Boy does she sound desperate.
Code word for "arrogant": "Uppity N. Saturday Night Live was right. Yes, racists support Hillary.
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Can Barack Obama win West Virginia?
No.
Next?
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Obama will never win the nation's stupid people.
"Arrogant" or "aloof" is code for "he thinks he's better then me," which is what any self-respecting person will be called by those with low self-respect.
This mentality is exactly what Rove was targeting in 2000. He knows how resentful Red State America can be, and how easy it is to direct their resentment.
Obama is in danger of suffering Stevenson's fate, who was told "Mr. Stevenson, you have the vote of every intelligent American," to which he replied; "That's nice, but I need a majority!"
( apocryphal quote, or "it might not be true," for you Red Staters. )
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Regardless of Tomorrow...
...Barack Obama will have a fairly smooth ride through West Virginia in November, assuming he is the nominee then. With the support of Joe Manchin and of Jay Rockefeller, as well as the progress-infatuated chamber of commerce, the Democratic candidate will win there, no matter which one it winds up being.
There is much about this state which is poorly understood by most of the rest of America, which has not been there, hasn't visited, much less lived there. Maryland, West Virginia bled for your sins. It isn't West Virginia that's known as "The Free State" because it never ratified prohibition and one was "free" to go there and get drunk; It isn't West Virginia where it's legal to marry your first cousin or even a 13 year old with the parents' blessing. West Virginia was founded on a desire to not become engaged in a bloody Civil War; Maryland was constrained by Abraham Lincoln from seceding (a long, convoluted story, but that's the short fact of the matter). The list goes on.
My point is that anything can happen in West Virginia, and it generally does. So no matter what happens there on Tuesday it will not surprise me and, further, it will likely not have much of an effect on the traditional Democratic win there in November. They've had enough of Bush, like everyone else has. And they are thinking over there behind the ridge. Madden has made the case for the yahoo stereotype of the western half of what was once Virginia, and there are yahoos to be found there. And in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and just about everywhere else in the US.
I feel certain Ms. Clinton will win it tomorrow, but whoever is the candidate in the fall will win West Virginia. I'd put cash money on it.
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dear jesus
"They won't go for a black man, that's just it," R.K. Horton, a retired heating and air conditioning business owner, said of his neighbors. "I don't think it's being racist necessarily, they just don't like black people that well." For that matter, it's not just his neighbors. "The arrogance and all that bothers me more than black, but black is a close second..."
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I'm really proud of my country that there are so many Americans in 2008 who have not made their decision of who to vote for by the reasoning process this voter has.
Moving along.
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Can Obama win West Virginia?
No. But Hillary wouldn't win it in November either.
No need to ask about Kentucky, because he won't win that one either.
However, he has won the Democratic nomination.
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I am fed up with this "I'm not racist or anything, but..." nonsense
Yes you are. You are racist.
If you don't like black people, you are racist.
If you don't like your daughter to marry a black man, you are a racist. Piece of s***.
Maybe Foxworthy needs to make a "You might be racist if:" show
to help clear this matter once and for all.
I think even the card-carrying Nazi's today take the liberty
to say "we are not racist or anything, but...". Enough of that crap.
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unbelievable...well what do you expect anymore....
What is the purpose of this site? Does it have any pretense to being a place to hash out the issues of democracy or just more pointless yapping that serves no purpose. You people are shameful...no other topics out there hash out ISSUES or promote discussion? No, more pandering to the delusional and trolls.
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Of course those who have a lizard brained kind of mentality
Are a constant challenge and a living reality.
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Lame.
Boy, these other people who criticized this article are right on the money. Lame, a rehash, and it serves no particular purpose. I couldn't read the whole thing, just scanned it. Could tell how lame and useless it was anyway.
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What about social security
When the Hortons find out what McCain wants to do with their social security and the economy, an arrogant black man might not seem so bad after all.
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No
No Obama can't win W.Va. for the same reason Hillary did not win Washinton D.C. -- identity politics and racism. (along with sexism, ageism and every other ism that has been rampant in this election process....blah blah blah).
I am so sick of poor Obama and his racism woes...as if he didn't play every card in the deck against the Clintons throughout the entire campaign.
The sexism that goes unnoticed and is not given a second thought has been as prevalent and at times, more so, during this campaign.
If Obama were a woman of any color with one year in the Senate -- which was spent campaigning to be president, he would not even be running -- and that's just truth. So Obama drop your racist cries and be thankful you are male, because it is the only reason you are winning -- you arrogant, inexperienced man.
And maybe those voting for Clinton who will vote for McCain over Obama are not interested in rock star candidates with nothing under their belts...and that is their right. How arrogant and yes, "cultish" of Obama's supporters to think that anyone voting against Obama is racist or stupid...there are other factors involved...and he is not the Messiah after all.
I am not voting for McCain -- but I respect those who are -- and their right to their own opinions.