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Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:00 AM

In Barack we trust?

Obama campaigned on his personality and judgment and won. Now, like it or not, he isn't beholden to anyone.

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  • Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:49 AM

    Now I'm not sure

    I voted for the man. Thought, Brother King's dream has come. We have made it. Now, I'm not sure. He keeps putting in Clinton excabinet members. I don't know about others but I paid out the nose while Clinton was President with his marrage penalty tax, tax on this, tax on that. I am just getting back on track and it is looking like it is all going to be ripped out again. What was I thinking? I know what, I was thinking he is black and that was it. He doesn't even have foregion affairs experience or even any progressive national experience or military experience. I know what I was thinking, the same as ever other person that voted for Obama and is black, he is one of our own. I didn't care if all his brothers birth cirtificates listed them as Arab, he was black and that was all that mattered. I hope I live to regret this blunder.

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