An excerpt from Salon's The battle of the literary endorsements...Every campaign has its theme song, and now, apparently, every Democratic
candidate must also have his or her own dowager African-American
literary icon. Last week, poet, memoirist and greeting card scribe Maya Angelou
-- who read "On the Pulse of the Morning," a poem she wrote in honor of the
occasion, at the 1993 inauguration of Bill Clinton -- has just published a poem paying tribute to Hillary Clinton.
This week, novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison sent a public letter of endorsement to Clinton's main rival, Barack Obama.Wekend Two Cent Question: Who gives a flying flip? Although I am a writer and a fan of both writers, who they endorse don't amount to a hill of beans with me. Does it you? If so, why?
