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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.
By Dan Hoyle

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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:37 PM

    sort of an ode to klytus

    Today's 9/11 and the bad guys aren't caught.

    I lived through 9/11 on the island of Manhattan, and seven years later the bad guys aren't caught.

    I live in a "free" society where I can order a Manhattan, but nobody needs to remind me that those bad guys aren't caught.

    A middle name and skin color keeps us from getting those bad guys caught?

    Moving the war to Georgia gets those bad guys caught?

    White woman saying: get those bad guys caught. With or without lipstick.

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