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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 10:49 AM

    buck says:

    " not all white people are rich former plantation owners. some just showed up in this country in like, 1900."

    And the moment they walked off the boat - these foreigners had more rights and more access to wealth than the blacks who took their trunks off the ship - blacks who may've been living in America through generation after generation. do you deny that? Even after you got into law school, you're too blind to history to allow a little leeway for Americans who were systematically denied the same kind of rights your family took for granted.

    nice, Buck - very nice...

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