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Published: March 21, 2008 04:56 pm    print this story   email this story   comment on this story  

Jay’s Obama endorsement premature

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

I have to agree with Mr. Shuck, (March 20) that both Rockefeller and Rahall would have been wiser to have waited until after the May primary election to announce their endorsements.

However it is not surprising, considering the Percy family history In Illinois, that Rockefeller would endorse a candidate representing the Cook County-Daley political machine.

It is also not surprising that the Kennedy family would endorse the Cook County-Daily machine candidate.

That machine delivered the deciding vote for John Kennedy in the 1961 election.

Oboma is, of course, the front person for the Cook County-Daily machine.

Clinton, on the other hand, represents the Monyhan-Schumer wing of the Democratic party in New York.

Our responsibility as rank and file voters is not to vote for the candidate that looks the best or speaks with the most pleasing enunciation and voice cadence but rather to vote for the political machine that once in office will control the administrative branch of government to the benefit of West Virginia. For the most part we can forget about the individual candidates. They are basically incidental to the process.

What we need is favorable administrative control and a favorable coalition that can control the legislative process. We as individual voters will have to decide which machine will be most favorable to West Virginia.

Politics is the art of compromise and in that process the art of incurring the least possible political debt and the most possible political credit. I do not know enough about Rahall's balance sheet to hazard a guess as to why he chose to endorse early. I do know that Marty Gearhart is probably glad he did.

At some point in time I feel sure Nick Joe will provide an explanation.

Bill Morefield

Princeton, WV

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