Sen. Clinton was born in Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She went to school in Massachusets and Connecticut . She then married and moved to Arkansas. Now she represents New York in the Senate. Therefore she is from all those places. She won primaries in all these significant states: Massachussets, Arkansas, Connecticut and New York. Her win in PA is partly attributed to her grandparents being from there. Illinois doesn't count because Sen. Obama is from there too.
Thus, it is clear that having roots all over the US is a distinct advantage to Sen. Clinton. It makes her a hometown girl in most of the places she has won. Even in TX her connections date back to the seventies when she campaigned for McGovern there. And as first lady she spent so much time in CA, everyone was surprised when she chose New York from which to run for the Senate.
The next primary is in Guam, May 3rd. Nine delegates at stake. Almost the number of delegates Sen. Clinton won in her gigantic victory in PA. Guam is definitely a significant contest.
I have such fond memories of Guam!
Sen. Clinton began her Press Conference yesterday. The reporters were skeptical.
Oh yes. My grandfather is from there. He was born in a mud hut behind what is now the airfield.
But I thought your grandfather was from Pennsylvania?
Can't a person have more than one grandfather? Jeez, most have two. Why Bill has two on his father's side alone. His father's father and his stepfather's father.
Oh. So which of your grandfathers was from Guam?
Sen. Clinton bursts out laughing. Some would say cackling.
How can I answer that? I mean, how many angels can dance at the head of a pin?
I recall landing on the beach as the Japanese were withdrawing. There were snipers still in the hills. My grandfather beckoned us to run with our heads low to the waiting car. He drove quickly to the mudhut where he still lived.
Really. And he had a car. But he lived in a mud hut. Okay..
Yes. And we went harpoon fishing the next day. I bagged a Marlin. It was three feet nose to tail when we caught it. After that the fish continued to grow, so by now it is about six feet long and weighs a half ton.
Hm..and what else did he teach you?
To climb palm trees. I have a picture to remember it by too. I can still crack coconuts with my bare hands. Want me to show you?
No thanks. It all sounds so exciting.
Yes, it is all part of the lifetime of experience I bring to the Whitehouse. What if someone needs a coconut cracked on Day One?I am ready. You have to ask my opponent about himself.
I remember they make a real strong drink from coconut sugar called toddy. It is fermented right at the tree top. I used to climb up and take a shot of it right up on the tree. Let me tell you the climb down was no cakewalk after that!
