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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.
By Dan Hoyle

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  • Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:23 AM

    You are.

    WHO's THE FOOL?

    You are. For insisting on shoving an empty suit on the ticket that over half the party made clear they wanted no part of -much less half the country with an electoral map skewed by far to the center or right.

    It's been obvious since super Tuesday he wouldn't win a general and glaringly obvious thereforth on.

    Therefore you might want to save your condescending lectures for the Nobama zealots. ;-)

    —hootowl Read hootowl's other letters

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