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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 02:10 AM

    @berlet98

    I look at your frenzied rant, and all it says to me is that you're really freakin' out bad on sayin' to your sad self - yes - we - can't.

    Well that's little 'ol you with your naggin' uncertainty and uneasy pain, that republican legacy inherited by you from Mr. John McCain.

    See, me, I'm with the Barack Obama plan, the one which positively affirms the words - yes we can.

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