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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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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:10 PM

    Pathetic Excuse Making For Obama's Fall In the Polls

    And that fall in the polls began WAY before the end of the primary. He was losing these large states left and right... no pun intended but he still is. He won tiny little caucus states where Democrats would never win anyway - 2,000 people voted. Does that a win make? No.

    The Boys Club wanted their puppet to win. They raped and ambushed the best candidate in the race to get their hands on the power through this done nothing. SMALL TOWN BITTER WHITE FOLKS CLINGING TO THEIR GUNS AND RELIGION --- STILL AREN'T GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM. WHY? THEY DO NOT TRUST HIM OR "BELIEVE" IN HIM. Why should they? What has he EVER done to say prove he is qualified to do anything aside from gather the Boys Club to his side, send out his PIT BULL DAVID AXELROD, sit by and call Bill Clinton a racist.

    Barack Obama can go to the devil. He can take the Boys Club with him.

    HE WAS LOSING IN MARCH - AND ON THROUGH JUNE.

    HE WAS AN ILLUSION.

    ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT PRESIDENTIAL. AND IT HAS CERTAINLY LOST IT'S PHONY SHINY LEAD.

    HE'S BEEN LOSING FOR A LOOONG TIME. THE SUPER THUGS STOLE THE NOMINATION FOR HIM.

    THE PEOPLE DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA.

    HE'S AS ILLEGITIMATE AS GW. ONLY HE TAKES TWO VACATIONS IN SIX MONTHS.

    WHILE AMERICANS ARE WORKING LIKE DOGS TO JUST FILL THEIR TANKS AND STAY WARM THIS WINTER.

    AUDACITY IS MILD.

    THE BOYS CLUB PLUS PELOSI AND EGOBAMA CAN BARK LOOONG AND HARD AT THE NOVEMBER MOON.

    SMALL TOWN BITTER WHITE FOLK HAVE HIGHER STANDARDS THAN THIS DONE NOTHING WITH A COCKTAIL NAPKIN RESUME

    AND THEY'RE CLINGING TO THEM !

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