Philly Wins One Out of Two Important Contests Tuesday Night
Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Apr 23, 2008 | Tags: jeffrey hill, obama, clinton, hockey, philadelphia flyers, washington capitals
I’ll keep this short. I’m sure you’ve heard enough.
Down and out, frustrated, annoyed, quiet, irritated - Philadelphia moves on past a primary that meant little-to-nothing in deciding who will face John McCain in November. Barack Obama, who trounced Clinton in the City of Brotherly Love by 130,000 votes, lost in the statewide contest by twice that number.
Philadelphia received non-stop media focus for six weeks. One couldn’t walk two blocks in this town without being asked to pledge an allegiance. In front of City Hall, Clinton and Obama supporters waved signs at cars, peacefully coexisting and almost ignoring each other in their drive for honks and cheers from taxi drivers and police officers. For a moment, it seemed like history was going to be made here. And then, as the results doomed this primary like the groundhog predicting weeks of bitter winter, a faint flicker of hope blinked from the Wachovia Center: The Philadelphia Flyers, ignorant of the political fervor around them, sent the Washington Capitals home on a bus, back to the city that created this mess.
Call it trivial and excuse my language, but ‘fuck yeah.’
And that’s all I have to say.
Jeffrey Hill is the web editor for Next American City and a contributing writer for Philadelphia Weekly.
Larry Martin
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:38pm
Yo, Jeff, don’t blame Washington for the morons and inept goons who work here and make “this mess.” Its not like they’re locals here. I doubt that most of them have even seen the Caps play. Remember, you guys elect `em, and send `em here - we just put `em up and entertain them.
Heck, we can’t even elect `em to the Congress ourselves, you know, we don’t even have voting representation in the Congress.
Jeffrey Hill in Philadelphia, PA
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:16pm
It’s much more fun to associate the Caps and everything D.C. with politics and evil, especially when they play the Flyers.
Let me be happy, okay??
By the way, it’s always fun to watch Ovechkin. He’s in the wrong town.
-Jeff