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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Jun 10, 2008 10:17am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 04:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By John Brummett
Once again Arkansas Democratic politicians find themselves burdened with a presidential nominee they'd prefer not come near them.
This circumstance - a Democratic presidential candidate seeming to be culturally alien in Arkansas - goes back 36 years, to when Dale Bumpers was governor.
Though plenty liberal himself for our culturally conservative if economically populist state, Bumpers knew better than to align too closely with the presidential nominee of his party in 1972. That was George McGovern, whose candidacy was a pointlessly losing proposition in Arkansas, not to mention everywhere else.
This time Arkansas Democratic officeholders thought good fortune had smiled upon them. Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary, would be the presidential nominee. They could afford to embrace her openly as a favorite daughter.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, the most transparently ambitious young Arkansas Democratic politician, signed on as Hillary's state chairman. He liked to tell people about her duck-hunting exploits that one time.
Ross cleverly told me he needn't worry about traveling the 4th District with Hillary, because, you see, she knew the way on her own. Never mind that I doubt you could put her at the wheel of a Chevy Malibu without a road map and trust her to show up on her own in Norphlet. (You go to El Dorado and ask.)
So here we are with Barack Obama, who narrowly defeated Hillary for the nomination. He's African-American. His name sounds like Osama. He was rated the most liberal member of the Senate last year by the National Journal. He has that former preacher who decreed that God should damn America and that the United States government is responsible for the AIDs virus. |
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