Miss Virginia Offended By McCain Campaign Comments

FiveThirtyEight:

They've done it. The McCain campaign has gone and pissed off Miss Virginia.

When McCain senior adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer divided Virginia into the DC suburbs and "real Virginia," Kristi Lauren Glakas felt extremely disappointed. Glakas, a recent three-time Miss Virginia title holder and whip-smart University of Virginia scholarship honor student, said the comments were divisive.

"What offended me and made me sad about those comments," said Glakas, a resident for many years in northern Virginia, "is that I've been to every county, every part of this state. What's best about Virginia is its diversity. The people, the geography. We have every class, every race, an amazing immigrant population... Virginia is the birthplace of America. To say that part of Virginia is not part of the real America is just offensive."

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Comments

[lucite]

If Frick and Frack are dividing the country how will they fare in the global community? I would'nt risk that for any pair of red pumps.

[billofgoods]

Three time winner ??? She must have a great ACORN campaign going for her

[daveny]

Yes - she won the Miss Virginia title for the Miss Teen USA pageant, the Miss USA pageant, *and* Miss America.

In other words, she's not only smarter and more patriotic than Sarah Palin, she also kicks her ass as a beauty queen, too!

[tuttlemsm]

ACORN doesn't explain away this:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1023-mccain-on-life.html

Frustrating, isn't it?

[ilovemycat]

Think about it, we're all immigrants...

[lobo1939]

We are all Africans also. Some of us left a little earlier than others did. See "The Journey of Man" by S. Wells.

[moosetacos]

Snap! When you're angering the beauty queens watch out. Sarah Palin just lost the "Miss Congeniality" vote. I'd like to see a flute-off between the two of them.

[PAposter]

You Go Girl. Strong, Smart, Beautiful, Inclusive, and Proud. You are a true role model for little girls.

[Airforce-1]

John McCain should have pick her for his running mate, she is smart and beautiful.

[patianneb]

mcC is not that crazy about smart women.

[08politicaljunkie]

mcC is only crazy about those who pay his way

[DrFrescas]

This whole anti-American argument is old and stupid.

[JJ30]

Couldn't agree with you more.

[ArcEnCiel]

Agreed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaQOAnwdIVg

[Sammy00400]

It's not old at all. It just hasnt been this insidious for a little while.

[Rog49Thomas]

Check the election of 1800 for a reality check on your comment.

[Grunty1]

But it has been their only talking point for a week now!

[shanester]

There's at least ONE beaut queen out there we can be proud off!

[kadene]

Soken like a true American. This is the America that McCain/Palin and their cohorts have lost touch with. What they prefer to reconstitute, are the vestiges of yesterday's bigotry, fear and divisions, which may even have worked four year ago, but it just ain't working now.

[themiddleway]

Virginia is the birthplace of American colonialism. Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the U.S.A., which is what I take to be her meaning. Or, if you mean the birthplace of "America" Amerigo Vespucci, who was the second to land here, but the first to realize it was a new continent certainly did not land in Virginia.

[saxmaniac]

Gimme a break. Virginia gave us George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and is as important
to the founding of America as my local Massachusetts heros John Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere. If the people of Virginia hadn't sided with Massachusetts, Connectict, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Rhode Isalnd, Delaware, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, there wouldn't BE an America. BTW -- New York was a holdout, and almost spoiled the whole thing.

[rich3324]

The first Thanksgivings was in Virginia.

[tydicea]

Glakas, a recent three-time Miss Virginia title holder and whip-smart University of Virginia scholarship honor student, said the comments were divisive.

Well, well....funny you should say that. That's exactly the crux of the McCain/Palin campaign.

[lisakaz2]

Good for her, supporting all the ppl of her state. She represents all of 'em and as such did a fine job at that. I bet she don't need a map to find "The Iraq" either.

You go girl is right! I got an MA from there. If she's an honor student, she probably is pretty bright.

[lola85]

They should have picked HER to be McCain's running mate.

Thank you for speaking up Miss Virginia!

Obama/Biden '08
Keep HOPE alive

[omac112211]

Failed beauty pageant contestants such as Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin could possibly learn a thing or two from Kristi Lauren Glakas.

[NoWMDs]

Palin is not sure if East Virginia is patriotic or not. Once she finds it on the map she'll go visit it.

[dentuso]

She knows it's in the northwest, bordering NH. That's all that matters.

[ilovemycat]

I "betcha" she can see it from her porch!