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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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  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008 06:13 AM

    @ClearBlueSea

    "The typical white person is racist, even if its just a little bit so."

    Let's be honest here -- the typical _person_ is racist. Non-whites are _also_ racist. Prejudice and bigotry are part of human nature. And Blacks are human, too.

    (egads, I actually hesitated before using the word "Blacks". This is where all this PC nonsense has brought us to? So sad...)

    —red_gti2000 Read red_gti2000's other letters

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