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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Bitter as hell in Pennsylvania

Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?
By Mike Madden

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  • Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:47 PM

    @Madam The Oratory of Senator John Kerry

    I agree that Kerry always made sense, eventually. He would come up with these wonderful baroque constructs full of curli cues and interjections, and qualifiers, and, and, and. He's very thoughtful.

    Sometimes he needed to just say "Yes". And stop. So I think his speaking style hurt him among the non Henry James crowd (approximately everybody in America except for a handful).

    Obama is just on another level. He can build complex passages, but it's not like being on Mr. Toads Wild Ride while you are listening to him.

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