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Bill Clinton provides a good example of how to essentialize:

The stories coming out of South Carolina were just not so. I didn’t say anything negative about Senator Obama. . . . But the main thing is, I understand the immense pride that he has generated in the African American community.

I mean, they have been voting for white candidates a long time, and they got him, and they are proud of him and a lot of people will support him. All that I can do is go and say why I think that Hillary will be a better president.

As if no Black person would vote for Obama because they think his positions are better. Most young people are also voting for Obam; I wonder if Bill understands our excitement at a young candidate who’s not from a power-family (bush, clinton, kennedy, McCain, etc–definitive oligarchy).

The Bush family is one of the most entrenched–a dynasty, and their political power dates back to the Hoover administration.

Although Obama and Cheney are cousins, it’s not quite the same thing. Obama and Cheney are 11th cousins whose shared ancestors were Mareen and Susannah Duvall, 17th century immigrants from France; Obama and Bush are 10th cousins once removed whose common ancestors are a 17th century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole.