Letters to the Editor
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@ melthough
Thanks, melthough.
Yep, I agree with your analysis about the MoveOn.org ads. A LOT of Eastcoasters and many, many Westcoasters, don't have a clue, unfortunately, how people in OH, IN, KY, and WV actually think, feel, and, not surprisingly, vote.
I live in the heart of the Bible Belt. I know my Gospels, can quote Jesus, been to churches full of Fire and Brimstone, and was raised in a small, hick, Midwestern town, where people's idea of fun is playing baseball with the grandkids, attending the church picnic, going drag-racing along the back country roads, and, for bored horny teenagers, fucking in the cornfields. There are more teenage pregnancies here than in some of the nearby bigger cities two hours away. It's so boring around here, apparently there isn't anything for horny kids to do but fuck.
People in the hills in these areas wouldn't even comprehend the ads posted by MoveOn.org. It would be like watching an alien landing. It's not that anyone would think these ads are distasteful or offensive, or condescending, but they would say "What the hell was that all about?"
Really, the only one I thought that was actually pretty good, was the white dude pick-up driver telling the camera about all the wasted money in Iraq. Now, here in the hills, that's something that people actually ARE talking about. Iraq is on people's minds, because when you live in a county with no jobs, a lot of young men join the military, and a few have come back in body bags. And one in particular, just down the road an hour and half, came back all bones, because he'd been missing since 2004 (Matt Maupin). We've had our share of funerals of young men here. THAT is something that hits home: war.
MoveOn, Clinton, Dean, Obama, Edwards, and the whole gang in the Dem party would do well to link McCain to the war, and surely, as steady and incisive as a laser beam, link the economy to the trillions that will be paid for this assinine war. They would sure make inroads in the hills. Because people around here would love to see some of that money invested in the good 'ol USA (flag-waving cheers).