OK, West Virginia happened, and you won a huge victory. But I read your victory speech, and you didn't address what I see as the most disturbing aspect of your victory: explicit racism turning West Virginians away from Barack Obama.
The racist angle is widely known, but here are a couple of background citations from the BBC news service:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
In the coal mining town of Logan [WV] ... Democratic voters spoke openly about their reluctance to vote for an African-American ... Among them [was] 77-year-old Miss Hale, who told me in Yesterdays diner in Logan that she didn't like Obama's "Muslim faith" and Eugene, who casually mentioned - as he was sitting in the barber's chair - that his father didn't want blacks in his house, let alone in the White House.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
West Virginians' attitudes to race may also have helped Mrs Clinton, the surveys suggested ... Overall, Mr Obama gained 28% of the white vote in the state to 68% for Mrs Clinton, according to exit polls ... She also led Mr Obama among groups who have tended to back him in previous contests, including voters under 30, college graduates and independents.
Now, I believe strongly that you are not a racist, and that you abhor racism. Yet, in your West Virginia victory speech, you didn't even mention the disturbing fact that your victory, or its magnitude, was undoubtedly due to white people in droves not wanting to vote for a g-d d----d n----r.
So now I'm really curious. How do you feel about your victory? Doesn't it make you even a bit squeazy to realize that you, Hillary Clinton, have cornered the bigot vote?
Maybe you just think of the racists who voted for you as tools, that you will take votes from wherever they come, and then ignore them once you are in office.
In fact, that's probably your "best" option in terms of ethics.
Another way you might be thinking about it is that if blacks can vote for Obama for racial reasons, then what's wrong with whites voting for you for racial reasons?
Anyway, I'd be very interested in what you have to say about this--your feelings about winning an election by capturing the racist vote.
Greg Shenaut