Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown suggested
over the weekend that Barack Obama might fare better with Indiana voters if Obama werenâ??t from Illinois.
Indiana folks think of Illinois â??as the land of hoods and thugs,â?? Brown said. Illinois people for that matter regard Indiana as a â??toxic waste siteâ?? populated with hicks and rubes.
In short, neither state likes the other. â??Sometimes it seems our only common ground is a mutual lack of affection for Northwest Indiana,â?? he said.
In a day when Indiana people trek to Chicago for recreation, is Obamaâ??s home state an issue for Indiana voters?
Indiana folks think of Illinois â??as the land of hoods and thugs,â?? Brown said. Illinois people for that matter regard Indiana as a â??toxic waste siteâ?? populated with hicks and rubes.
In short, neither state likes the other. â??Sometimes it seems our only common ground is a mutual lack of affection for Northwest Indiana,â?? he said.
In a day when Indiana people trek to Chicago for recreation, is Obamaâ??s home state an issue for Indiana voters?
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I don't care for any of the candidates, but I especially have problems with the two from Illinois. Clinton cannot explain away all of the people close to she and her husband that have been murdered and her ignorant stance on healthcare (the system needs significant improvement, but her ideas for nationalizing healthcare are counter-productive). Obama cannot explain away his connections to radical religeous leaders (Islamic and Christian). McCain cannot deny his age.
I do like Obama's spirit, sut he bends the truth like the rest of them...I don't take money from the big oil companies, yet he takes money from their executives, etc.
I'll never vote for Clinton, so it's between Obama and McCain for me. Which has the lowest weighted negatives???
I will say, however, that his comment that Indiana folks think of Illinois “as the land of hoods and thugs,” tells me that he thinks Illinois is only made up of Chicago, because the rest of the state is seldom referred to having those challenges. Nothing I have read accuses any other area of having this challenge.
First, I would ask him to open his eyes to the rest of his state, then perhaps ask more than a few friends over the border what they really think of Illinois.
I, as one Hoosier, love Illinois, and I don't think I'm alone. It would be silly to judge a candidate because they were from Illinois, or any other state for that matter. I love Chicago, spent two years right out of college traveling the rest of the State in sales, and grew to know and love many other parts of Illinois as well.
No, I don't judge these candidates by their state of origin. I do judge them by what I see, hear, learn, remember and feelings of comfort when I picture them leading our country here and abroad.
On the issue of Indiana not voting for Obama due to his relation to Illinois, well again, that is yet another dividing bunch of rhetoric to say don't vote for Obama.