Weekend Chat: The Black Literary Elections

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?