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Frankie M

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Sunday, March 30, 2008 08:01 PM
Original article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?

Why is Hillary so Blue-Collar?

Why is Hillary Clinton considered so blue-collar? She was educated at Wellesley and at Yale -- hardly bastions of the working class, and I suspect she's even a worse bowler than Obama is! Obama's policies respond to the economic needs of those struggling with unemployment, housing woes, globalization, and other challenges that are very real to working class America. He did not grow up in privilege. He needs to get his message out loud and clear and not allow himself to be defined by the Clinton machine.

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