Hillary’s Voice

Most Americans who watch Oprah know of Dr. Maya Angelou as Oprah’s mentor, but Dr. Angelou earned acclaim years ago through her civil-rights leadership, poems and books. Dr. Angelou is a national treasure, as Bill Clinton acknowledged when he invited her to recite a poem during his 1993 inauguration.
While some Obama supporters — e.g., Rep. James Clyburn — are busy trying once again to “play the race card” in some strange hope of benefiting Obama, Dr. Maya Angelou (who turned 80 last month) has been busy positively campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Why? Instead of paraphrasing a brilliant word smith, I’ll give it to you in Dr. Angelou’s own words:

Some bloggers are upset with Barack Obama for giving conflicting responses about the flag-pin non-issue (Little Green Footballs via Memeorandum). Aside from admiring Nancy Pelosi’s pearls, I don’t care about politicians’ jewelry.

I do care about the mainstream media’s repeated failure to cover the more substantive misleading statements that Sen. Obama has made: chiefly, those about where he gets his campaign funding.

Today, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos offered a prime opportunity to spotlight this important issue, but George and his guests chose not to.

Wise people throughout the centuries have observed that what we focus on (positive or negative) becomes energized.

That said, since late January, more of my campaign-related blog posts have been Obama-negative than Hillary-positive. There’s a natural reason for that: Obama has been stealthily negative since Iowa and his campaign has made many false statements.

I will continue to point out when the Obama campaign does such things, because many media are refusing to do that basic part of their job.

To balance things out and help energize Hillary in a positive way, I’ve decided to also post AT LEAST ONE positive piece about Hillary every day.

Please join my (now small) effort for Hillary’s benefit.

It’s easy to find Hillary-positives: she has a long history of them, which I touched on in a post (with links) here.

She also has a lot of present-day positives, listed at Hillary’s site here.

Today, I did a simple post about the Maya Angelou piece — THANKS to Hillary’s Voice group for pointing it out!

At the bottom of my Angelou post are links to few other positive pieces that have links to outside sources.

Six Democratic super-delegates from North Carolina plan to endorse Barack Obama before that state’s primary. They’re afraid that prolonged contentious campaigning will reduce the yet-unnamed Dem nominee’s chances against McCain.

Translation: they want Hillary to drop out sooner.

Super-delegates’ attempts to prematurely give Obama the nomination would only further ossify the resentment many Hillary supporters already feel toward Obama and the Democratic Party.

Below, I explain why throwing the race to Obama now might make John McCain ecstatic in November — and would likely create a new wave of Independents.