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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 09:17 PM

    weeping

    i haven't wanted to vote for anyone for decades - in fact EVER. the only one was obama - that's why i don't object if someone calls me an obamabot. it's true in a way - a willing suspension of disbelief. for instance kucinich always seemed sort of a drip - with his two foot taller irish wife. whatever. the tribal thing i can understand - though i don't share it. i know that lefties have this underlying New Soviet Man ideal - where everyone is the same. i don't have that problem. i can differentiate. white people aren't like that, true, but a lot of jews here are - they feel they have to bend over backwards for the backwards bending palestinians. pas moi. and i have no problems voting for someone who's biracial just because he's biracial - but that wouldn't be enough. as i said, it was his MIND and second, his not talking down (true, if you don't come UP to his level, i'm sure you would find him arrogant). he's really a unique commodity - as even richardson sees. and it's not his inspirational nature, but WHY he's inspirational. see? how can i complain if i'm called an obamabot. and really, i don't have all that much against hillary, EXCEPT, she's IN THE WAY! And so to bed.

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