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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 08:52 PM

    behavior of blacks during primary lost me and most of America I'd bet

    When every single last damned black person in America of voting age raced out to register to vote for Nobama in the primaries and turned on the former President and Senator who have done more for blacks than any politician since Lincoln and LBJ, and all the rabidity and profanity they were using - not to mention Rev.Wright, Pflagler, Michelle Obama, their vulgar rappers, ad nauseum.

    That they now have the nerve to sit here and bitch about non-existant white racism as an excuse for the ultimate defeat of their piss-poor unqualified half-black Messiah is just beyond the pale.

    they can shove it up their collective ____ and I know near everyone agrees with me (in the REAL world).

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