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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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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008 10:25 AM

    marginalia

    The Clintons are not racists; they are opportunists. They don't care what it takes to win. As far as my own purity: poppycock. I'm fallible down to my toenails. Possibly beyond. But I know closet racists when I hear them. They play in B flat, and they b stupid. No one here knows anyone else. Kate could be a lobsterman from Maine for all I know. His/her/its perspectives are those indivisible from the crackers I used to serve at a bar in the Ozarks, where the unwritten motto was "women and coons are great; everyone should own at least one of each". That's verbatim. Why, might one think, did the solid (waste) south turn from guaranteed Democratic from the twenties on to guaranteed fascist now? Hint: legislation was passed in '64 and '65. Flip, meet flop. That's Katie, and phillips, and shawnie boy, and the rest of the pack of stale crackers. By their fruits shall ye know them. And I smell overripe okra. screw dixie.

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