This is a meditation on relevancy. I am not from a "big" state, but please don't go calling me "small" either.
In case anything else needs be said about Sen. Clinton's 13-state strategy, please read on.
We are you, and you are us.
We have tall buildings, freeways, houses, and farms here. We have to drive more than we'd like, and work more than we'd like to make ends meet.
People come here to do business, to live, to play. Usually they aren’t just passing through.
We are black, white, Asian American, Native American, Indian, and Latino. Some of us have ancestors who came here from all over the world.
We are straight, gay, and bisexual, though seldom all at the same time.
We are young, old, and in between.
We are skinny, obese, healthy, and ill. We feel the pain of unaffordable health care.
We are low-income, high-income, and middle-income. We work in high tech, manufacturing, and service industries.
We like rock music, classical music, country music, rap, big band, jazz, and Gospel music.
We are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Green Partyists (or is that "Partiers"?), and persons of all other kinds of political persuasions here.
We cried on 9/11, and we watched with a more long-lasting dread as our own federal government used our national tragedy as an excuse to strip us of our civil liberties and keep the will of the people in check.
We still have hope, and we are not afraid to stand up for it.
We live in Washington State, but when we describe ourselves, we might just as well be describing every other state Barack Obama has won during this primary season. We may not have 370 delegates, but we matter just as much as every other state in our great land. Dismiss us at your peril.