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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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  • Saturday, September 13, 2008 03:45 PM

    KLYTUS ANSWER THE QUESTION 2

    I notice you haven't answered the question. The same question you haven't been able to answer ever, have you?

    Where is that majority just dying to vote your way for Obama supposed to come from?

    Not all the drivel in the world can make up for not giving a straight answer to the one you've been asked months on end.

    And its one you know has no answer, don't you.

    Obama is going to lose. Badly.

    And whatever validity you think you had in defining yourself by obsessively spending your life on this blog will just be blown off in one day. No matter how much you desecrate the language by the month.

    By the way, I am sure I am not the only one wondering how you are subsidizing all this time here 24/7.

    It wouldn't, KLYTUS, be government, um, benefits, would it?

    -gala1

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