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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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  • Saturday, September 13, 2008 05:04 AM

    Class warfare?

    The only people that Palin/McCain can depend on voting for them in large numbers are the 'rich'...

    Those making over $200,000 will 'earn' more money for their investment than any other demographic if Palin/McCain are successful.

    I've sen some of these neuvo-rich people in my area and they definitely don't deserve the money from our treasury. Hummers, Ferrari's and expensive 'cottages' that look like mansions.

    Cheney/Bush and Palin/McCain are all about class warfare and not so much about 'country first', except for the amount of money they can extort from it for their own personal gains.

    We aren't 'all in this together', it's very much like aristocratic England and France before the guillotine got its workout and proved that the rich die just like all of us...

    The problem witht he 'rich' is that they are fickle and are going to grow tired of propping up the messes that Cheney/Bush and Palin/McCain have and will create. Most of the rest of the world has already tired of propping up the robber barons of Wall Street and as well they should. Cheney/Bush will not stop propping up 'their base' at the expense of the rest of us... It's all been about shifting the economy to the upper echelons and dumping the rest of us. A government by the rich, for the rich and all with the help of the devoid of common sense and a sense of their own stupidity: value voters...

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