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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 09:01 PM

@ david

Also, David, one of the ways that racism works (at least in my case) is that it has created in me a natural resistance towards black candidates, fearing lest I be engaging in some kind of tribalism.

Of course, white people don't have this problem because white candidates are just candidates.

So I had my own vetting process with Obama, focussed around a good many factors, but one of them was assuring myself I didn't just like him because he was black (or for that matter, Ivy-educated and in my generation). But all those things we do share and maybe ultimately those are the most compelling argument to me and the rest is all justification.

I don't think that's the case, but who knows, really?

I wouldn't presume to have it all figured out.

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

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