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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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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 08:38 PM

    AKASmith parodied

    WHO is AKASmith? Her MO says: "An ageing, bitter, unpleasant woman living in Escondido, California, who spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights writing endless self righteous pontifications on Salon to pass her time. Sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately. Her cats look at her in wonder."

    http://salonparody.blogspot.com/

    Go to the comments section for each of the blogs to find AKASmith comments.

    She was so poor, she made the homeless in America, who lived in cardboard boxes, the posterpeople of high living.

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