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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Isn't she lovely?

In her prime-time speech Monday, Michelle Obama foiled her harshest detractors and perhaps even won over Middle America.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:50 AM

    @ mister buck

    My family doesn't have any wealth. seriously. i know this might be hard for you to accept because you can't wrap your mind around the idea of a poor white person. To be accurate you should have said: "your family's poverty, built on the back of [the] unfairness... that blacks experienced throughout the bulk of this nation's history... would be stripped and we'd all start the game from square one."

    Doesn't make any sense does it?

    As far as i'm concerned, i did start the game from square one. maybe negative one. my parents were violent alcoholics.

    —buck mulligan Read buck mulligan's other letters

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