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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 10:51 AM

    It's No Secret - Obamalove Is A Magical Feeling

    People who worry Barrack might be a secret Muslim should instead worry about the very real non Muslim church the BHO

    Family frequented for 20 years. The strong views of his mentor - spiritual advisor are very well known.

    This is BHO's rather haunting problem: He's been living his life a certain way for the past 20 years, and now he expects people to believe rhetoric which belies twenty (20) of very real experience. People are expected to believe he really would lower just about everybody's taxes, when everything he's done as a community organizor and as a legislator had the real life effect of raising just about everybody's taxes.

    You must think all these people are rubes and yokels if you think they could really believe that a thoroughly left wing guy with a visceral distaste for the military would actually secure our victory in Afghanistan, when, IN REALITY, when things got tough in Iraq, he was the first and the loudest to proudly champion a speedy surrender and betrayel of all those Iraqis proudly displaying voters' ink on their fingers. Now, do your really expect people to believe he'd be steadfast in Afghanistan. You leftys live in a bubble. Very few of you have been in the military, waited on tables, worked on a construction crew and rubbed shoulders with real people, people who are smart even though they did not have the educational opportunitues you have had.

    Pleeze, do yourselvs a favor, new leftist of a brave new world.

    Try thinking clearly. Try listening rather than just despising people who disagree with your untried and untrue remedies which have caused so much suffering during the past 100 years.

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