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Obama, Harry and Guy

Gov. Sarah Palin’s “small-town” narrative has just about run its course. Lots, maybe most, of the people I know are from a small town, or their parents or grandparents were from small towns. Of course, they may be from small towns in Italy or San Marcos or Guatemala—not sure if those places would qualify as “the real America” to Palin. My own family is from places like Oskaloosa, Iowa, New England, N.D., and Chillicothe, Mo. I love my small-town Midwestern relatives (even the Republicans, which is probably what most of them are). They are warm, generous people, and I don’t recognize them in the spiteful Palin at all.

But Palin claims the small town folks are the ones who do the hard work and fight the wars. So don’t we work here in the small city of Lynn, Mass.? And how come it seems like every other family in my local union has a kid in the 10th Mountain Division?

 

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  1. jconlon115
    October 30th, 2008 at 20:25 | #1

    Yeah , now I get it !
    Let’s vote for Obama and we won’t get anything similar to NAFTA , GATT , WTO or Gramm-Leach. Things that were signed into law by the LAST DEMOCRATIC president and sailed through the Senate with tons of Dems signing on !
    He’s rock-solid behind free trade as long as Chinese labor camps and Indian/Pakistani/South American sweat-shops treat their workers a little nicer. Priceless !
    There are sweat shops operating within sight of the U.S. Capital Building and he’s gonna keep an eye on the Chinese from here ???
    For God’s sake let’s get some kind of payback from these Dems before we p.ss any more money away in supporting them !
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