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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 12:58 AM

    SMALL TOWN AMERICA IS INDEED GETTING TO KNOW OBAMA

    They're getting to know him, getting to know all about him...

    I have to take issue with this headline: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/12/obama-ad-ridicules-mccain-over-war-injuries/. In all fairness, I refuse to believe that Obama was making fun of McCain’s war injuries when he said McCain can’t even send emails.

    Just as he confused the number of states in the Union when Senator Obama said he campaigned in all 57 of them, with one to go, not counting Alaska and Hawaii, and just as Senator Biden wasn’t being cruel when he told a paraplegic in Missouri to stand up, the much vaunted brilliance of Obama simply failed him again.

    It turns out Senator McCain cannot type emails because he cannot type, not because he lacks secretarial skills but because of the consequences of his war injuries.

    It’s sort of like Obama being unable to recall his close ties with Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Reverend Wright or Reverend Pflieger, or his inability to remember specifics about his years at Columbia University, or what precisely he did as a “community organizer/activist” in the Belly of the Chicago Beast, or his Muslim roomies in college.

    Truth be told, Barack Hussein Obama, despite all the hype conjured up by the mainstream media, is just plain stupid.

    More proof of that stupidity: He married Michelle, didn’t he?

    For a great graphic of OBAMA/BIDEN THE MOVIE please see http://genelalor.com/.

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