This article is kind of dumb.
That article is, well, kind of dumb. Let's talk about Ohio, shall we?
If Hillary Clinton were a state, she’d be Ohio.
This is a no-frills kind of place, suspicious of glamour. Barack Obama’s promise to make politics cool again doesn’t necessarily resonate here. Eight presidents came from Ohio, and the coolest was William McKinley.
Really? Because as a young woman who grew up in Ohio and goes to an Ohio college, I have yet to meet someone really excited about Hillary. Almost all of my peers who are into politics, are into Obama. Perhaps it's a generational thing. Regardless, it's certainly not a state thing.
And when did Ohio become some "no-frills kind of place" (I picture that said in a Southern drawl)? She makes it sound like the Kansas in The Wizard of Oz. Maybe it's because she's from Cincinnati. Southern Ohio's like a whole different state compared to Northeast Ohio.
This is one of the great anti-glamour stories in history. How could Ohio not relate?
What? Why? Because Ohio is past its glory days as a steel and mining state? What I see here is this:
Hillary: A Shabby Candidate For A Shabby State.
And that does a disservice to both.
The middle of the article is okay, mostly a comment about how Barack Obama has kicked it up to eleven. However, because she can't leave well enough alone, the author ends the article on this note:
You do your best, and if things don’t work out, it just wasn’t your time. Life isn’t always fair.
All of which Ohio understands very well.
So she should just wait it out, until a better time. You know, emulate Ohio, the state with a stronger work ethic and moral code than those other states. Whatever, Gail Collins.
One last, petty thought: President James A. Garfield was way cooler than McKinley. :-)
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People of the seen-as-less-than-cool areas unite!
GO GARFIELD!!
Though, really, McKinley was shot. That's pretty cool.
Oh wait, they both were. Poor Garfield, always the forgotten president.
Yeah, Did McKinley linger? (I read that book by Sarah Vowell but forget that part!) That's the worst part of it, for me, that Garfield lingered so long.