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Hilburn was originally a more [[conservative]] Democrat who supported [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections, respectively, but thereafter shifted ideological lines to become decades later an active backer of [[Barack H. Obama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20131121/OPINION02/311210043/Wiley-Hilburn-Column-JFK-Guilt-grief-another-direction|title=Wiley Hilburn Column: JFK - Guilt, grief and another direction|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|accessdate=November 22, 2013}}</ref>​

Hilburn was originally a more [[conservative]] Democrat who supported [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[Barry Goldwater]] in the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections, respectively, but thereafter shifted ideological lines to become decades later an active backer of [[Barack H. Obama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20131121/OPINION02/311210043/Wiley-Hilburn-Column-JFK-Guilt-grief-another-direction|title=Wiley Hilburn Column: JFK - Guilt, grief and another direction|date=November 22, 2013|publisher=''The Monroe News Star''|accessdate=November 22, 2013}}</ref>​

On November 19, 2007, Hilburn published a column in ''The Shreveport Times'' which purports that former Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]] would be judged much kinder by history than the difficult circumstances which followed [[Hurricane Katrina]]. It was those problems that prompted Blanco , a Democrat who died in 2019, not to seek a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Victory instead went to Blanco's 2003 opponent, Republican [[Bobby Jindal]]. Wiley Hilburn attended a bipartisan reception for Blanco at the Squire Creek Country Club near his home in Choudrant in Lincoln Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS0804/711190316/1060/NEWS01|title=Wiley Hilburn: History to be kinder to Blanco than her storm-tossed administration|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 19, 2007|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}</ref>​

On November 19, 2007, Hilburn published a column in ''The Shreveport Times'' which purports that former Louisiana [[Governor]] [[Kathleen Blanco]] would be judged much kinder by history than the difficult circumstances which followed [[Hurricane Katrina]]. It was those problems that prompted Blanco , a Democrat who died in 2019, not to seek a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007. Victory instead went to Blanco's 2003 opponent, Republican [[Bobby Jindal]]. Wiley Hilburn attended a bipartisan reception for Blanco at the Squire Creek Country Club near his home in Choudrant in Lincoln Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/NEWS0804/711190316/1060/NEWS01|title=Wiley Hilburn: History to be kinder to Blanco than her storm-tossed administration|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=November 19, 2007|accessdate=January 18, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Six weeks earlier, Hilburn had penned a column critical of what he saw as the attitude of certainty in the personality of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071001/NEWS0804/710010320/1007/OPINION|title=Wiley Hilburn: In Bush's world, optimism rules|date=October 1, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Six weeks earlier, Hilburn had penned a column critical of what he saw as the attitude of certainty in the personality of President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071001/NEWS0804/710010320/1007/OPINION|title=Wiley Hilburn: In Bush's world, optimism rules|date=October 1, 2007|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 18, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref>​