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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 06:04 AM

    @weeping

    i wake up to find you effectively shut up tom payne. you have no business corralling other posters. you tried to do that with me but i wasn't biting. it has to do with your leftist anti-tribal ideology. so, instead, you defend katetex who basically, racistly, blames the victim. you won't consider blacks the victim because that would be identifying with the tribe. clearbluesea says in her first post about how PA could very well go to Obama. then she takes it back by admitting it's all part of a familial psycho-drama. she says "I have exclusively dated black men for the last ten years" EXCLUSIVELY? then she says there's no "black culture", so what gives? she likes the shade? the importance of being Ernest? NO, like weeping it's another leftist ideology - it's a political marriage, UGH! it also lessens the import of her testimony - but since it's only intended to show how PURE she is of Bigotry, it's not really any testimony at all.
    Tom Payne's family has more votes than you, weeping. you shut up an important person and curtseyed to a racist McCainer.

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