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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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  • Saturday, September 13, 2008 05:32 PM

    Obama is not qualified to be President

    Obama's views are way outside of the mainstream. It's only the media and the urban populations who support him, and they are a small, yet vocal, minority. The liberals should wake up and smell the coffee: your average American is too fundamentally smart and decent to allow such an inexperienced charlatan to tell them what to do with their own time, money, and thoughts. Look at the Reid-Pelosi Congress: it would be a joke if it weren't so important. Obama has never run anything of significance and his time and opportunities in the legislatures, such are they were, appear to have been used to accomplish nothing.

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