Hillary, our “Blue Kentucky Girl”

*Note* I originally had video of Loretta Lynn, but the you tube video was pulled before I could post : ( Emmylou Harris is a pretty cool second choice though….

In case anyone didn’t know, I’m a huge Loretta Lynn fan. I thought this song was appropriate as we wait for the polls to close in the Bluegrass State. As I’ve said before, I grew up in Appalachia and I lived for two years in Kentucky while I was in grad school, so I feel I can speak as an “honorary” Kentuckian at the very least. Kentuckians are proud of their state and the many facets of their rich cultural heritage. Obama, however, seems to think that Kentuckians are too stupid to recognize chain emails and media bias:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday’s primary election, won’t travel to Kentucky before the voting, but said he hopes to have much more time to win over Kentucky voters before the November general election.

He also blamed Fox News for disseminating “rumors” about him and said that that and e-mails filled with misinformation that have been “systematically” dispersed have hurt him in Kentucky.

He also, as our current President has done repeatedly, demonstrated that an Ivy League education isn’t what it used to be…

“What it says is that I’m not very well known in that part of the country,” Obama said. “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known — not only because of her time in the White House with her husband — but also coming from a nearby state of Arkansas.

I guess you don’t need to pass 4th grade geography to get into Columbia these days because Obama’s home state of Illinois actually borders Kentucky. But let’s give him a break. As I’m sure Obama would attest, Chicago is the only part of Illinois that really matters. The rest is all icky. You know, full of working class types and uneducated buffoons. Down there at another great Confluence, that of the Ohio and the Mississippi, people are a lot different than his urban base, and apparently Obama just doesn’t “get” them.

Meanwhile he panders to the very same voters he accused of being “bitter” and “clinging to religion”

Obama has been trying to introduce himself to Kentuckians using a series of biographical TV ads, as well as fliers, including one that shows him at a pulpit in front of a church’s cross and pipe organ.

I think Kentuckians are way too smart to be bamboozled like that. All you have to do is take a look at one of Kentucky’s favorite sons to figure that out. Daniel Boone is to Kentucky as Washington is to all Americans. He was a trailblazer (literally), Revolutionary War hero, and a legend in his own time. Here is how he described Kentucky when he first arrived, in his own words:

It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool.

We proceeded successfully, and after a long and tiresome journey through a mountainous wilderness, in a westward direction, on the seventh day of June following, we found ourselves on Red River, where John Finley had formerly gone trading with the Indians; and, from the top of an eminence, saw with pleasure the beautiful level of Kentucky.

We found everywhere abundance of wild beasts of all sorts, through this vast forest. The buffalo were more frequent than I have seen cattle in the settlements, browsing on the leaves of the cane, or cropping the herbage on those extensive plains, fearless, because ignorant of the violence of man. Sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove, and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing.

I think that our Blue Kentucky Girl has a lot more in common with Boone than the Senator from the neighboring state. Boone’s sense of adventure, determination, love of country, and true American grit are the same qualities that are attracting many Kentuckians to vote for Hillary today. So while we wait, here’s a salute to American Heroes, past and present.

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