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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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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:46 PM

    Your words

    "Here's another fact for you: BO hasn't the experience and therefore also doesn't have the vaguest notion of how to command a military force"

    How have Rumsfeld, Cheyney, Bush done with the command of a military force? Do they have the "vaguest" notion of WHERE Osama in Laden is? WHY have they not done something about that?

    Here's a fact for you shithead: It's been 7 years since 9/11, this gang has done NOTHING to stop the perpatrators of that crime; instead has launched all the might and capital of this country into enriching their pals in the oil industry. HOW is that working out? I Wanna know. DO you have answers?

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