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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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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 08:01 AM

    What can we expect....

    My parents lived in New York City on 1st Avenue just down from the United Nations. I live in a small town (pop: 30,000), but have been to NYC many many times over the years. I just love it when the big-city, so-called intellectual leftist groups look down their noses at the small-town crowds in rural America. Not all of us are closed minded, backward, uneducated, country bumpkins. I for one have two college degrees and work for a highly progressive company. Interesting how Mr. Hoyle picked out those who would (of course) give the answers that just feed into the liberal frenzy that has become Obama. And also interesting that just because so many of us out here "in the sticks" are not enthralled with this empty puppet who has done nothing but pen two autobiographies and visit Europe as a "pretend President", we are considered stupid, uneducated, and in some way, un-American.

    I don't like either candidate, and am disgusted and embarrassed with so many of my fellow Americans as well as how this election has gone. Surprisingly enough, though Obama promised early on to stay above the negative fray, he has become one of the most virilent (another one of his about-faces), as have his liberal followers. For a party that is supposed to be all-inclusive, liberal Dems are suddenly closed-minded if you dare to disagree with them.

    My advice for the big city liberals: go home and leave us alone.

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