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• Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:32 PM

  thank-you

  Dear Mr. Greenwald,

  Thank-you for doing the footwork in this intensely rich article. It has bothered me for years how the Republican rhetoric has manipulated facts and then appears to represent the average American in spite of empirical evidence to the contrary. As the polls increasely tilt towards an Obama win, my faith has been restored. People are hurting and putting two and two together.

  I have a couple of degrees, and like so many other people in California I have been downsized. Currently I'm working in a restaurant that primarily caters to wealthy Republicans. As I go about my service job(waitperson), I get snippits of conversations from these patrons. My deduction? Most don't have a clue about the struggling middleclass, these customers are extremely lazy intellectuals who live in a parallel universe. They raved about how terrific Palin was and could of cared less about her qualifications. Golf and me first, pretty much. This mindset is a result of free wheeling deregulation and a complete dismissal (lack of representation), of the middleclass for the past 8 years. "The Regular Voter".

  I don't expect radical financial improvement when Obama gets into office. It will take the first term to get things on track. Yet the one thing I expect Obama to address in his first term is health insurance.

  In conclusion, Obama has brought civility and truth back into the political spectrum and it doesn't illude the middleclass, it inspires us. I'm keeping the faith, He's gonna win!!!

  —Tourry Read Tourry's other letters
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