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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.
By Mike Madden

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  • Sunday, March 30, 2008 09:09 PM

    "Ivy-educated, book-writing rich kid"???

    Do some of you people seriously think Hillary was bagging at Walmart to put herself through Wellesley? Or that Dubya grew up punching cattle back on the ranch at Kennebunkport? Or that McCain isn't, well, the son of an admiral?

    Christ. Obama's well-educated, yes. And he was quite successful at that, in sharp contrast to the last two people mentioned. He didn't get there by being a son of the ruling class, either. And what did he do immediately afterward? He started organizing in a poor urban area.

    "Book-writing." Jesus! God help us if we have a President who could actually write, huh?

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