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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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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:39 PM

    @menck

    You gotta love Obonzo!bot stupidity/hypocrisy.

    99% of the blacks in North Carolina voting for the black candidate is great! But if most of the whites vote for the white candidate (the one who is y'know actually QUALIFIED) in West Virginia than they're racists.

    Oh, and hard-working people experiencing hard-times with kids in Iraq are going to be so impressed with the Empty Suit's guitar music and Change! rhetoric - particularly when nobody bug nobody can find a single person besides himself, his obnoxious wife, and some Syrian slumlords that are better off for his self-serving existance.

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