Why does the Financial Times take so much pleasure in making Americans look stupid? Everytime I read a quote from an American in FT it is of them saying something horribly ignorant. Case in point, check out this blurb from yesterday.
Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.
“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.
Mr Simpson’s remarks help explain why Mr Obama is trailing Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, by 40 percentage points ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in the heavily white and rural state, according to recent opinion polls
Democratic country keeps its distance from Obama
West Virginia is Democratic by tradition only. They share no values with this party. Running this quote without any background about the state and its population is very misleading.
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