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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 01:13 AM

    cdr42 - no, YOUR moronic words...

    I wrote: Here's another fact for you: BO hasn't the experience and therefore also doesn't have the vaguest notion of how to command a military force or run a Senate committee or manage a business. Now go put on your detective outfit and see if you can find the facts to refute that! I'll bet you can't...

    But you didn't even attempt to address that challenge. No, obviously you're not capable of comprehension or you know you cannot succeed at meeting the challenge or you're just stupid and lazy because instead of answering this, you changed the subject to: How have Rumsfeld, Cheyney, Bush done with the command of a military force?...this gang has done NOTHING to stop the perpatrators of that crime... Oh and by the way, does that make you feel better to call me a nasty name since you can't find a valid way to support your unqualified candidate?

    Here are a few clues for you to solve your dilemma in discerning the differences between one individual and another.

    McCain was nastily drummed out in 2000 the same way Bush's gang drummed Kerry out in 2004. Why on earth would that fact lead you to believe he is one and the same as W? That he is in lockstep with W's policies or positions? Oh, that's right, you believe everything the BO machine tries to program into your little weak mind and they said "Bush=McCain" so you take that as gospel truth. It's really sad that so many in your camp don't seem to be able to reason their way out of a paper bag...

    Wake up and use your brain - two people are incapable of being exactly the same, reacting, governing exactly the same way. This is especially true with two so diametrically different people as W, the spoiled little rich kid/failed businessman/"daddy's puppet", and McCain, the career military man/effective legislator/"Maverick". If you can't see the differences, if you can't acknowledge that McCain has had to hold his tongue as regards W since 2000 and "get along" to survive in politics, mind you - just like BO does when he smiles warmly and claims to be bonded with Hillary (whom he obviously does not like).... well, if you can't see these things, there is no hope for you. Your poor small brain is just deficient and I guess the real burden is on all of us, that we must deal with the poor decisions you make in life when saddled with such a burden.

    Now if you want to refute me, go find the facts on the challenge I made instead of acting like a fool, cursing and making up ludicruous arguments that have nothing to do with what I wrote.

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