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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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  • Sunday, March 30, 2008 09:15 PM

    @tompayne

    You say: "We do not dislike Hillary." Oh?

    A brief sampling of your posts along the way:

    

    "So, screw the Clintons before they screw us. Again. without lubricant."

    "Hillary is America's Margaret Thatcher... The only area in which she has a clear lead is lying, cackling, and phony weeping."

    "Pimping for NAFTA, helping Bill lose the house and senate in '94, helping him with his zipper in 97 and 98. Hillary, the comeback cackler, is behind by more delegates than she was before her big erection victory of a couple weeks back."

    "A shriveled bitter douche bag, resting on laurels that never existed: that's our Hillary 20 years hence."

    "If Obama has two faces (one for each race, or what?), Hillary has too many to count."

    "Of course, her blind adherents say she "won" Texas even though she received fewer delegates than Obama did. That's Clinton logic. Now, we'll get six weeks of whining about the sexist media, more fear mongering ad campaigns, and more thinly veiled race cards. Not racism - no sane person thinks the Clintons are actually racist. But they'll use anything - any thing- to win. It's what they do."

    "My guess is that you...subscribe to the Klinton hints that Obama is getting a free media ride 'cause he's a darkie."

    "Poor, poor Hillary...Everyone's against her, and the lucky mulatto is gettin' all de good press. Anybody for a chorus of "Camptown Races".

    "She's not a monster. She's a douche bag. Or, she's warm and teary and all fuzzy about the American people. Or, she's mama wonk, spouter of irrelevant cliches."

    "Obama is going to kick the Hillster's ample ass today, and again Tuesday in Mississippi. Of course, you all will write that off to all the darkies stickin' together."

    "She has no right to the nomination because she happened to pick the color of the drapes in the White House and the Arkansas Governor's Trailer."

    Yes indeed, it's easy to see that "We do not dislike Hillary." But "we" apparently enjoy painting her as a completely unscrupulous, race mongering, lying douche bag with no class. Would that about sum things up?

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