PoliticsDo Not Pass/Pass With Care. Today's truckers are far more educated and cognizant of the issues regarding politics due to the sharp increase in talk radio, and various trucking news media sources. Talk politics. Do truckers like politicians?
Speaking to black and Hispanic New Yorkers this afternoon, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to quell the controversy over race and the Democratic presidential nomination fight by crediting the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King for his “march for freedom and justice” that had benefited both herself and her rival, Senator Barack Obama.
But Mrs. Clinton’s appearance and remarks, before the Local 32BJ union in midtown Manhattan, were not exactly a smash. The audience, made up mostly of security guards, applauded steadily when she entered but did not roar – and there were a few scattered boos. Much of her speech was met with silence. Less than half of the room gave her a standing ovation when she left.
As for the key question – which one of their own to support in the New York primary on Feb. 5, the hometown Mrs. Clinton or the African-American Mr. Obama? – several people said they were undecided but leaning toward Mr. Obama.
“My older relatives all like Hillary – I’m in my 50s – and all of my younger relatives love Obama,” said Joyce Tabb, of East New York, who worships at one of the co-sponsors of the event, St. Paul Community Baptist Church.
“Hillary is very good – she’s a Christian woman, she’s been to my church – but Obama is so fresh and brilliant,” Ms. Tabb added. “We’ve got a woman and a black man. It’s hard. But I’ll probably go with Obama. He’s the one who gets me really excited.”
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“Hillary is very good – she’s a Christian woman, she’s been to my church – but Obama is so fresh and brilliant,” Ms. Tabb added.
WHAT???? Hillary a Chrisitian???? I'm insulted. Just because she showed up one day to pander some votes, they think she's a christian. They must have a low set of standards at that church. At my old church they didn't consider you a Christian until you survived 2 exocisims, and attended atleast 1 Billy Graham revival.
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01.15.2008
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