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Sunday, February 10th, 2008...1:40 pm

It Didn’t Work As Planned

My few readers know I voted for Obama in the Democrats Abroad online primary and that I will happily vote for whichever democrat is ultimately nominated. I post the following only for its humor.

Potomac Primary: Don’t Answer That Question

The candidate was more than an hour late, and the crowd, stuck in a stuffy high school gym in Arlington, was getting antsy. A campaign staffer took the stage with a big pile of T-shirts to give to those who answered trivia questions about Hillary Clinton.

Her birthplace? Got it. Her law school? Piece of cake. How much of the country would Clinton’s health plan cover? “All,” came the answer. Okay, final question: “This person is the next president of the United States . . .”

Suddenly, all around me, the bleachers in the Washington-Lee High School gym shook with shouts of “Obama!”

“Oh, no,” said Linda Cooper, a Chantilly homemaker and Hillary fan who was sitting next to me. “I guess she doesn’t have the young people.”

No, she doesn’t. Teachers gave Washington-Lee students the option of attending the Clinton rally as a civics lesson, and more than a thousand kids grabbed the chance to see democracy in action. But as much as they appreciated a glance inside the machinery of retail politics and contemporary celebrity, most students seemed far more taken with Barack Obama or John McCain than with the former first lady.

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