67% to 26% was how it went in
West Virginia.
Clinton
whupped Obama.
But
West Virginia's
demographics, to be brutally honest, do not look like the rest of this
nation.
Each of the states throughout
this great union of ours - thank god - are more of a mixed bag.
I think what did it for me was an interview on ABC with an
older, white West Virginian woman. In the interview, the woman explained with a
straight face that she won't vote for Obama because he is a Muslim.
I guess the woman had left planet Earth during the three
weeks that Reverend Jeremiah Wright dominated the news cycle because he was
Barack Obama's pastor.
Remember Wright? The
guy who led Obama's soul to Christ, who married Obama and his wife and who baptized
Obama's children?
So, yep, folks, you can say you heard it hear: Senator Barack Obama is a Christian. Not a Muslim.
He is not a Muslim,
but he is a Christian.
Muslims have imams, Christians have
pastors/preachers/bishops.
One of these things doesn't belong: Islam, muslim, imam, Obama ... I know for that
woman, it's too many of the letter "m", but you get the point.
Besides, this West Virginian woman revealed her bigoted stance against
Muslims--
as if the terrorist few who have hijacked the great religion of Islam
is somehow reflective of all Muslims.
So, if you hear any analysis saying that West Virginia's vote mattered considerably,
not that I'm discounting last night's vote completely, then that analysis is
suspect.
Anyway, really great news came out last night that Clinton
and Obama supporters alike should appreciate.
Travis Childers won a House seat last night.
You may ask, "Who is Travis Childers and what does he
have to do with the price of rice, eggs, and/or gas?
Well, Mr. Childers is a Democrat in the great state of Mississippi who beat
Republican Greg Davis in a special election.
The seat in the House that Childers won had belonged to the Republicans
since 1994. Furthermore, this win comes on the heels of Republicans down there
in Mississippi
trying to sully Childers with Wright (there's that name of that Christian Reverend again) and with Obama.
The Republicans tried to portray Obama and Wright in attack
ads as the same man and somehow damage
Childers with such bad logic.
The smear campaign failed.
The Democrat prevailed. I even
discussed in one of my previous
pieces that Newt Gingrich posited that a smear campaign against Obama or any
other Democrat that is based on Wright will lose elections for the Republicans.
It is also important to note that the latest news reports
suggest that Obama has a southern strategy to beat McCain in the fall. Childers' win in Mississippi might suggest that the South is
indeed ready for a change. And the name
Sam Nunn - an incredibly accomplished man with a kick-ass southern drawl à la Jimmy Carter - has
been thrown around as a possible running mate for Obama.
With his impressive credentials regarding national defense
and international issues, Nunn could make Obama-as-president a pretty
persuasive argument for tons of people.
Either way, Obama's loss in West
Virginia was merely a bump in the road while Childers win in Mississippi doesn't look good at all for Republicans come November.
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