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Friday, September 12, 2008 12:00 AM

What small-town America is saying about Obama

In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.

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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:30 PM

    Dumbass nation

    This isn't the America I grew up in. I call it dumbass nation. What is especially sick is how the working-for-a-living whites grovel and kiss up to the rich white butts that run the country. And what they get is an 'ownership' society based on their debt.

    I am full of hate right now because another one just went down to our "health care" system.

    Face it: America hates, and loves to kill: Americans. That's why 75,000 of us die "preventable deaths" every year, because we lack health care. That's why Republicans excuse every moral flaw in their own, but spew hate to everyone outside the country club.

    That's why dumbass will vote Republican.

    That's why I'm pursuing citizenship in the EU.

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