Beckley mayor supports Obama and “change”
May 6th, 2008 by Erica
I read in a post on West Virginia Blue that Emmett Pugh, the mayor of Beckley, officially endorsed Obama on Monday. Quoting from an e-mail, the blog quoted Pugh as saying:
“Barack Obama is the only candidate who can restore people’s trust and faith in government. Washington is rife with partisan politics and we need change. We need to fix what’s wrong with the country and Senator Obama understands you need Democrats, Independents and Republicans to do it.”
Obama has built his campaign around change. However, no matter what Pugh says, change may not be the catchword that earns Obama votes in West Virginia.
In a New York TImes article (accompanied by an awesome slideshow shot by a friend of mine) the reporter brings up the issue Obama is encountering in small-town Indiana: maybe people don’t want change. At the very least, they have a problem with the vague notion of change being tossed out without specifics, something that Obama is often guilty of.
No matter how much Indiana and West Virginia need some kind of change, it remains to be seen whether they’re going to give Obama a chance to deliver on his promise.
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