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Hillary Picks Up N.C. Superdelegate, Will Stay Until There's a Nominee | 113 comments (113 topical)

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Yep (5.00 / 1) (#104)
by chrisvee on Wed May 07, 2008 at 06:34:30 PM EST
I like to think of myself as a rational member of the reality-based community. But here's the thing.

My working class white mom supported herself, my sick dad, my brother, and me on a depressingly small hourly wage for many years.  She raised us to believe and practice that all people are created equal, that we need to extend a helping hand to those in need, and that everyone is endowed with certain inalienable rights -- those things we call values.  She had a zero tolerance policy towards any hint of anything racist or sexist. Thanks to her efforts, my brother and I are now highly-educated, latte-swilling creative classers.  Except I hate coffee so I'm actually a wine-swiller.

I'm sick of hearing people talk crap about my mom.  That's what this is starting to boil down to for me even though I know that's irrational.  I can dismiss the MSM as jerks, I can ignore the trolls on blogs who are probably operatives, but I can't tolerate it when it comes from the candidate himself or his surrogates.  If we want to know why people vote against their own economic interests, this primary provides an opportunity for observation in the field, so to speak.

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Hillary Picks Up N.C. Superdelegate, Will Stay Until There's a Nominee | 113 comments (113 topical)

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