Hillary Clinton scored a resounding win over Barack Obama in West Virginia, beating him by about 40 percentage points. Working class WV weighed in on their candidate of choice and it went to the underdog, the woman, Hillary. Instead of boosting her campaign, it seems that it sounded the death knell. John Edwards came forward and threw his support to Obama. All of the photos look like running mates. Edwards brings that work-class credibility to the Obama ticket. Obama’s got the vision thing. I don’t know. Hillary just seems to be getting more isolated.
A few weeks ago, I read an interesting essay about the first woman president versus the first black president. “Well, I’m overcoming oppression that we’ve endured since before the Civil War,” says Barack. Cue the marching band. “That’s nothing,” says Hillary, “I’m overcoming oppression that we’ve endured since God created humanity.” The great oppression debate.
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1 Sandy Bowe // May 16, 2008 at 6:53 pm
It’ s not looking good for our girl Hillary! I’m disappointed, but not surprised that John Edwards jumped on Barack’s bandwagon. The bottom line is that any Democrat would be better than another Republican in the White House. I’ll support whoever gets the Democratic nod, but my heart was set on Hillary. I thought that the United States was ready for a woman President. I guess we haven’t come that far yet . . .
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