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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 05:12 AM

    The Shilling Of A Candidate

    From a "Bowling With Bubba" campaign appearance in central Pennsylvania (Barack wearing an expensive suit and bowling shoes!!) to grabbing a hotdog at the local D.Q. with the blue-collar set (I kept waiting for him to ask for Grey Poupon mustard!!) to doing the walk-through on an assembly-line in a core-voter factory setting ("Show of hands; how many of you graduated from my school...Harvard?"), Barack Obama looked like the proverbial fish out of water.

    I wonder what's next on the campaign trail...John McCain break-dancing? Oy...vey!

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