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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 08:59 PM

    rosenklanner

    First, firm agreement. Mayor Booker is a very impressive man, much as Obama was ten years ago. After that, you pitch into the darkness of your own self evident ignorance. I will, if you don't mind, pass on the ever so tempting off to bite you. I know you're taken up on that quite often in republikan men's rooms. Here, no so much. Where to start? Ivy league rich kid? Oh, my. Yeah, just like Bushit. except he got in on merit alone, was an academic home run hitter, the President of the Harvard Law Review. billary took three tries to pass the bar. Next slur: he grew up in the sunny suburbs of Hawaii. Dumbass. I lived in Hawaii, and have friends there still. He was a middle class kid with God given talent. HIs book deal was based on his ability to write (which I'm certain far exceeds your ability to read) and actually sell books on merit. The Klinton Kamp books, which are actually quite well done, were sold on the basis of name recognition alone. You know: just like Billary's senate and now presidential campaigns. If her name were Rodham, or Rodman, or Muffmuncher, or Goldwater Girl, she wouldn't draw flies. She took a campaign with a rose petal strewn path to the nomination, and got beaten, badly, by a rookie. He out organized her, out thought her, out strategized her, and kicked her ample ass in every way that counts. Votes. Delegates. Have you checked recently, rosenshitze? She lost five more delegates in the Texas contest- which she LOST- and is now down about 150 delegates. After Penn and NC, the gap will be just about the same, except the super delegates, who can smell a loser, will defect to Obama to escape the Billary infection. Get shots. Get help. Get bent.

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