| Tonight, Obama routed the Billary Machine (preferable | | | | credentials and independence. However, Hillary and Bill |
| to the 'HillBilly Machine' favored by my fellow | | | | since the late 80s ran as Co-Presidents ("two for the |
| progressive blogosphere) in the S.C. Primary across all | | | | price of one" mantra). For example, Obama is fighting |
| racial lines; gender lines; religious lines; age lines; | | | | a tag/double team (one against two) of the Clintons |
| economic lines, and the Mason-Dixon Line. Slick Willie | | | | instead of Hillary by her lonesome. Is it fair? Well, |
| shot back that Jesse Jackson twice won the S.C. | | | | putting words in Billary's mouth, "Let's get real...life isn't a |
| Primary. I agree with Bill but Al Sharpton has never | | | | fairytale!" |
| won the S.C. Primary. Thus, we could hypothesize that | | | | Let's delve into the common ground of Obama and Bill. |
| Obama transcends the 'Black Candidate' label. | | | | Both were raised by strong, single mothers (with the |
| I have received 'feedbacks' from colleagues (Black | | | | help of a step-father at some point). In Bill's (William |
| and White) that it's shallow if not shortsighted for my | | | | Jefferson Blythe III's) case, he lost his biological father, |
| wager on Obama over Billary. They reminded me of | | | | William Jefferson Blythe II, three months prior to his |
| the 'civil rights' legacy of Billary - "Isn't Bill the first Black | | | | birth. In turn, Obama's father relocated to Harvard |
| President and doesn't he reside in Harlem?" (Actually, | | | | University before returning to Kenya. As a male, I have |
| Bill tried to get an office in Lower Manhattan but a | | | | to point out the respective fathers' contributions to their |
| Republican Congress cried about the expense; he | | | | sons' ultimate success. Bill's father passed on his |
| retreated to Harlem for great effect). I admired Billary | | | | genetic skills of a traveling salesman to his son. |
| for their contribution to the United States (including to | | | | In Obama Jr.'s case, a former U.S. congressman (a |
| Blacks) and its contribution to the world (a surplus of | | | | classmate and a longtime friend of the late Obama Sr.) |
| goodwill converted into a deficit of said goodwill by the | | | | reported on the similarities between father and son. |
| Bush Regime, er, Administration). However, we needn't | | | | Let's not forget that the Marxist Kenyatta Government |
| look further than the vaunted Churchill who was voted | | | | (where he was hired as a senior economist only to be |
| out of Office by a post-WWII British electorate. C'mon, | | | | fired because he wouldn't go along with its rampant |
| Churchill's deeds and WWII leadership should've made | | | | corruption) wanted the late Obama Sr. to have |
| him a "prime minister for life." To the contrary, the | | | | attended Moscow University in the Soviet Union. |
| British people wanted a new face and a new voice to | | | | Luckily for us, he chose an American university. If not, |
| lead them into a post-WWII future. "Were the British | | | | America would've lost a favorite son and Russia |
| voters ungrateful to their victorious leader?" No, they | | | | would've gained another Alexander Sergeyevich |
| wanted a 'change.' | | | | Pushkin. |
| On a side note, I do not wish to shortchange Hillary's | | | | Note: Obama won Nevada in the delegate count.... |