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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.
By Dan Hoyle

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  • Sunday, September 14, 2008 07:08 AM

    BO: the smartest man in the world who hasn't made any measurable difference.

    That's your problem. Outside of pushing a little paper in a Democratic majority state legistlature, he's done NOTHING. Where are the big changes he's made? where are the persons to testify to the wonders of his "community organizing"? (which actually was just an office and a nice car for himself).

    So the smartest man in the world can't point to any difference he's made (and I think we all can agree he's brought nobody together

    Pfft.

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