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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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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 09:50 PM

    to -- tillerylakelady

    Hmmm, let's see the people in your town are worried about:

    -Rev.Right (that is Wright. Worried about him?)

    -Father Pfleger - does such horrible stuff like lobby against the proliferation of liquer stores in poor neighborhoods. What a terrorist.

    -Louis Farrakhan - dont like him, OK.

    -William Ayers - I LIVED in the city and wouldn't know his name unless someone explained. Boy, are you learned in your small town.

    -Jodie Evans - who? Medea Benjamin - who? Frank Marshall Davis - who? Otis Moss 111 - who? Dr.Khalid-Al-Mansour who? Hatem-EL-Hady - who? and then we wonder why Radical Muslim Countries keep endorsing Obama,this has never happened to an American running for President in our History.

    Countries like,Lybia,North Korea,Iran,and Hamas. We have to ask ourselves WHY DO THESE PEOPLE WANT THIS MAN TO BE OUR PRESIDENT? These Countries are our Enemies.

    - as well as the rest of the planet, who recognized that Bush was a lying oil-soaked psycho. You know what troll? I'll bet the people in your town are dealing with forclosures and kids in Iraq right now and you are wallowing in this tripe. Evil is as evil does.

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