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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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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 06:35 AM

    The terrorists won!

    It seems like this country is comprised between selfish people who hate the environment, love torture and war and could care less about our kids and stupid, unaware, unthinking (again, selfish) racists and those in the middle are getting mud all over them.

    If George W Bush's legacy says anything, it's that the terrorists were right about us and they just nudged us along our way to destroying ourselves.

    —alienlovesong Read alienlovesong's other letters

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