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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 03:11 PM

    @peeps1

    I would gladly forward each and every one of my social security checks to you, c/o The Marx on Mars Programme, but something tells me you are one of them arm chair socialists, and not willing to volunteer to contribute based on your abilities and to receive whatever you should justly receive based on the findings of a committee made up of the finest minds we can find in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Cambridge, Hyde Park (we plan to rebuild Citizen O's fine 5000 square foot home brick for brick up there), Madison and Princeton (Paul K has been volunteered to be the chief economist of Mars).

    You are not just one of those limosene liberals with a gazillion trust funds, are you? I gotta tell you, you'd be expected to do more than listen to Nina Totenberg on NMR (National Martian Radio) and balance your checkbook up there. What about a position with the elite guard of looker downers at those friggin' awful pessimistic, unhopeful selfish people down there on Earth?

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