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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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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 03:59 AM

    The real American Tragedy

    "It is obvious that rural, working-class whites are more comfortable with the conservative small-town Palin, to whom they can relate"

    There you have it in a nut shell...the definition of the real "American Tragedy." This woman, just as George Bush, represents that vast swamp out there that is going to suck us all under. The quicksand or slush pit that will "disappear" what is left of the shredded Constitution. Who in his right mind could "identify" with this right-wing whacho extremist - who? Real Americans, that's who.

    If McCain and this woman get into the WH it won't be long before he is hiding behind her skirts and all the rabid neocons will EDUCATE their new protege while swilling their martinis and laughing at all those naive red-necks who took the bait again...hook-line-and-sinker. All they had to do was pull in the line..they go for it every time, and while they swallow the bait those in power will finish picking their pockets.

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