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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.

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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 12:27 AM

    SMALL, AND BIG, TOWNS ARE SAYING, "NOBAMA!)

    OBAMA PREPARING TO PULL AN EAGLETON?Published in September 12th, 2008 | EditPosted by Berlet98 in AMERICAN CULTURE TODAY, McCain/Palin, OBAMA, POLITICSNo CommentsThe handwriting is on the outhouse wall. When you’re in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging. He who laughs last, laughs best.

    Those words of wisdom seem to be the guiding force in the Obama/XXXXX camp of late.

    First, we had the tailspin in Obama’s numbers, then the steep dive in monies people were contributing to him, then Biden floating a trial balloon that Obama should have picked Hillary, then the lovefest in Harlem as Bubba hugged the man he had called a Chicago ”thug” and predicted a landslide in November for the Obamassiah.

    Something smells in Obamaland!

    The scrawl on the outhouse wall reads, “We want change!” but now it’s not the ambiguous change that Obama has been preaching about but a ticket change. The Obamanians have stopped digging but they still want that last laugh on November 4th, so what to do?

    When your own party stalwarts, and office holders, start expressing fears that Obama could sink them, you’re in a deep, bad pickle: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8031-11dd-99a9-000077b07658.html, so what to do?

    It’s said that most people don’t start paying attention to elections until after Labor Day and the sad truth for Obama is that millions of Americans are finally tuning in, jumping off his bus, and preparing to kick him under it, so what to do?

    White women especially and that all important bloc of independents have bailed out of the ‘Bama Bus, having learned more about him than they ever wanted to know, so what to do?...

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