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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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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 09:12 AM

    @ David sugarman

    Oh my God, how harrowing. I'm so sorry you had to experience that.

    That's Yonkers, for you. Violence all around. My experience there was similar, though I grew up on the other side, near Sarah Lawrence, Cross County and Bronxville. Bottles and taunts thrown from cars, harrassment on the street, harassment from cops, you name it.

    It really was a broken place, filled with suffering, resentment and acting out.

    —weeping for brunnhilde Read weeping for brunnhilde's other letters

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