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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 05:44 AM

    All the anger and fury...

    ...and you Hillary people are STILL going to lose.

    But Hillary's story about Bosnia makes me more likely to view Sinbad favorably. Do I smell VP choice?

    If she didn't CRY LIKE A BABY in New Hampshire she never would have made it out of that state. But ya gotta have pride to make it in politics, right?

    Oh, and I like how she "battled for healthcare" in the 90's! When she took a week to pitch it, was so bad at it that she was overwhelmingly rejected, and then hid in the White House basement for 7 years. Yeah, that is the consensus-builder we need at the helm! Face it, she's a quitter at the one thing that mattered. She'll quit again.

    And as for meeting with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review - enough said. I loved how she "was just answering the question" about Rev. Wright - YET SHE READ HER ANSWER OFF AN INDEX CARD!!! I loved it, she can't even race-bait without being thoroughly scripted.

    What the Rev. Wright thing is all about - and why Hillary and her supporters keep bringing it up - is to play on America's racial fears. "See - black men ARE scary...and don't let Obama fool you, he's a black man. Be scared of him!" Ya gotta have pride, right Hillary supporters?!?

    I have more respect for W supporters than Hillary's, at least they know they are amoral scumbags and CHOOSE not to care as long as they get the tax cut. Hill's supporters just delude themselves into thinking they're righteous.

    And as a Philadelphian, let me tell you - that Rendell and Nutter endorsement don't mean anything here.

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