According to press reports Bill Clinton is barnstorming through rural West Virginia telling people that everyone else is making fun of them, and him, that only Hillary believes they are just as smart as everyone else, and only Hillary believes that they have as much right to decide who will be president as anyone.

The former president also said that he would prefer spending his time with people like them than the "other" types who "don't need a president".

Really?

Now, I may be completely wrong about this, and, for all I know, the Clintons weekend in places like Ripley and Madison, West Virginia (where these comments were delivered), but I would wager that neither Bill nor Hillary nor Chelsea have been to any of these small towns in West Virginia since Bill Clinton left office.

The Clinton Foundation has done great works for HIV victims, and he and Bush Sr. spearheaded fundraising for Tsunami relief. He received billions in pledges to combat global warming. All awesome achievements... but, all also worthy of headlines.

If I were a citizen of Ripley or Madison, or other places down on their luck, and totally ignored by Bush and radical right wing, and Bill Clinton arrived carrying the message of camaraderie, with the explicit statement that it is among these people, and in their towns, that he would prefer to spend his time, one might be entitled to ask, "where have you been for the last 7 years, Billy-boy Billy boy? Where have you been charming Billy?" Why has Clinton's prodigious energy and attention not focused on us and our plight? Are we not worthy?

After all, Clinton is telling them how much Hillary needs them.

If I were a rural West Virginian, or Kentuckyan, I would be insulted.

If I were the Obama campaign, I might suggest to these citizens that the candidate treating them like manipulable children, not worthy of the truth, is Hillary Clinton's.