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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 04:23 AM

    @MaureenOdonnell

    maureenodonnell: "Foot-in-mouth John Kerry has been displaying his silliness once again and, as I saw it on YouTube, it's not only Americans that can wonder at his inanity. According to this former Presidential candidate, Barack Obama would be able to bridge the divide between extremists and moderates in the Muslim world because he is African-American, clarifying that by adding "a black man"."

    First of all, you've completely taken Kerry out of context and then based your entire argument against him on your own misunderstanding of his point. That's pathetic.

    Secondly, if you're going to come in here and spout nonsense about something somebody said in a YouTube video, at least have the generosity to provide people with a link to the video in question, so they don't have to waste time doing keyword searches just to find out how full of it you are.

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