Les électeurs racistes d’Hillary Clinton vus par le Financial Times
Andrew Ward, correspondant du Financial Times aux Etats-Unis, nous fait partager les réflexions des électeurs racistes d’Hillary Clinton (et de John McCain) en Virginie Occidentale.
“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
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None of the 22 Democrats interviewed by the Financial Times at the Clinton rally would commit themselves to voting for Mr Obama if he became the nominee, and half said they definitely would not. The depth of opposition is particularly striking considering that Mingo County is one of the most Democratic places in West Virginia, having cast about 85 per cent of its votes for the party in the 2006 midterm elections.
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Josh Fry, a 24-year-old ambulance driver from Williamson, insisted he was not racist but said he would feel more comfortable with Mr McCain, the 71-year-old Vietnam war hero, in the White House. “I want someone who is a full-blooded American as president,” he said.
Non, ce n’est pas de l’humour. Et le dernier clip de SNL sonne trop juste. Barack Obama va se faire écrabouiller en Virginie Occidentale. Bravo et merci, Hillary.
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Tags: Andrew Ward, Barack Obama, Financial Times, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Primaire de Virginie-Occidentale, Race, West Virginia Democratic primary
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