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• Friday, February 29, 2008 08:16 AM

  @Salon Fan

  I somehow managed to miss your letter, and so I am glad others here mentioned it. Your letter definitely should get red-starred. I appreciated the details of your campaign efforts and perspective. I did not realize ships were sailing to Lebanon in anticipation of a strike on Iran; I am going to go read about that now.

  One part of your letter that immediately caught my attention was this:

  "I spent my lunch break today making calls--I got through to an octogenarian who called me a traitor to my gender (I kept quiet and listened) and then I got through to someone who wanted to vote for Clinton because she felt that she MUST vote for a woman. Any woman. I think I managed to persuade her to at least consider Sen. Obama."

  Congratulations on keeping quiet and listening to the 80-something who said you were betraying women by working for Obama. I don't think I could have held back from arguing.

  Nice job on the pot roast and kitty litter. Sorry your house's value has dropped. Please come back to Salon and post more often. If people here have too much vitriol and artificial-intelligence, perhaps more people like yourself are the remedy (though I'm glad you're working on the campaign instead of wasting time in here like I am -- for my part, I have given money to the Obama campaign, which is nowhere near as valuable as your contribution).

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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