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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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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 09:26 AM

    @ HP

    "BUT - there is a value to it. The whole thing is a big pressure cooker, designed to bring out the real person. No one can "fake it" for the entire span (W is an exception, but he had practice as a spoiled rich kid being transplanted to Texas). The real person usually comes out - qualities and flaws."

    Au contraire, mon ami! He faked nothing.

    Remember when he mocked that woman whose death sentence he refused to commute?

    Tucker, was her name?

    It would be nice if we could attribute America's voting for him to some kind of deception.

    No, I'm afraid America saw just who he was and still voted for him.

    And did so again in 2004.

    "That's America."

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