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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 10:34 PM

    How is it..

    that your country, The Unuted States of America, with all the amazing resources available, with a massive population and a history of relatively well eductaed people end up looking so DUMB AND STUPID to the rest of the world? How is it that idiots like Bush are allowed to ruin your economy? How is it that when an educated, black man stands up for the top job the only debate going on amongst the public is whether they think someone will shoot him? What the f*#k is wrong with you people? Don't you get it? The world is sick of your stupidity, your nationalist nonsenses, your aggressive foreign policies and your overt RACISM and your crap culture. No matter how well informed your small town cretins mentioned in this article are they still come across as self serving, selfish and STUPID with so little curiosity about the rest of the world and a dyslexic disfunction that borders on autism as shown by the prattling of those quoted in this article. Did the interviewer actually talk to any intellignet people? Or perhaps there are so few that they, feeling ,like a minority do not hang out in the working class dumps he visited. In either case this article simple reiterates the view, held by many outside of your insular country, that the most dangerous people with nuclear weapons today are not the Iranians, could never have been Saddam but are actually sitiing in the Whitehouse right now. If God is blessing America I can only say i would hate to see the wjhat the world would be like if he cursed America as she justly deserves. But perhaps that is yet to come. Hurricane Ike blow on towards crawford then make a beeline to Washington and wipe these neocon scum off the face of the earth once and for all . Have a nice day, y'all.

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