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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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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008 07:46 AM

    KateTex

    Anyone who holds Colin Powell out to be some sort of dignified role model is delusional to the point of schizophrenia.

    I'm not reading schizophrenic delusions, if I wanted to do that I'd just log onto Red State, Little Green Footballs or Power Line.

    And, for what it's worth, I'm fish-belly white and grew up in the deep South during Jim Crow, by rights I should be as bigoted as Bull Connor. I can tell you who is going to be blowing the dog whistles like a steam calliope on steroids in this election if Obama gets the nomination and it ain't Obama.

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