http://clipmarks.com/clipper/debbyski/date/2008/5/14/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/debbyski/date/2008/5/14/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FEBCE073-63CE-4062-A823-A9FD81A11500/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/debbyski/">debbyski</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> *sigh*<br/>Not everyone from WV feels like this. But enough people do to make my life a living hell at times. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/opinion/14dowd-1.html?th&emc=th" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/opinion/14dowd-1.html?th&emc=th">www.nytimes.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> In grim times, a bitter Hillary clings to bitter voters who in grim times supposedly cling to guns, religion and antipathy to people who aren’t like them.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> The story quoted Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, who could take only one night on an Obama phone bank in the nearly all-white Susquehanna County, Pa.: “One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: ‘Hang that darky from a tree!’ ”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Charlie Peters, the legendary former editor of the liberal Washington Monthly who ran Jack Kennedy’s campaign in Kanawha County, W. Va., said Obama should study how J.F.K. managed to win there despite raging anti-Catholicism.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Peters says Obama needs imagination and a “tremendous effort” to dispel bias in West Virginia, and quickly, “because once it’s set in concrete, you’ll have a hell of a time.” </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/opinion/14dowd-1.html?th&emc=thThu, 15 May 2008 04:14:46 GMT