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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 12:50 PM

    Rebbe Calouse

    Dear Rebbe,

    Have you thought of starting your own PAC?

    You sound so educated and dismissive of everybody else, I gotta think you are a Harvard Man.

    You also sound like a trust fund baby. Was it you Michelle was talking about when she said, "Where is MY trust fund?"

    And, again, my frems, why are you so surprised when folks just cannot trust this couple of aloof, entitled racologists based on their very real statements and their very real relationships and their actual actions over a 20 plus year period? Do you really expect everybody to be true believers like you, believing what they are actually quoted as saying in the past because they are singing a different tune today.

    And why do so many people of your background and faith live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans, Rebbe?

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