Robin Chappelle is young, 31 to be precise, and on the move.
Knowing her background - a Black mother and White father, a former basketball player with creds as an up-and-coming player on the political scene - one might expect her to be enthusiastically carrying Obama signs.
But Chappelle is Hillary Clinton's political director in New York State and is committed to, and identifies with, her boss.
Seems to make sense that someone like her would spend Monday, the day before the big primary, in Brooklyln, a bastion of Black communities that are leaning heavily towards Barack Obama.
A New York Times reporter noted that Chappelle, like her boss, has a Midwestern accent tinged with a bit of a Southern drawl, traceable to Chappelle's time in college in Virginia. (read)
It was smart, of course, of the Clinton camp to have Chappelle out there the day before the New York primary, when there is concern about the inroads Obama has been making in Black communities in Brooklyn and elsewhere in the state.
One weird thing in the Times piece was that a Clinton aide seemed to be trailing the reporter and Chappelle, taping the exchange.
Maybe that's the way big-time politicians do things, in a snooping way. But it doesn't seem to reflect well on Senator Clinton's trust of her top aide.
These people!
[Pardon the flaky image of Chappelle, but it was weak black and white to begin with and had to be scanned.)
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