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12 Apr 2008 05:55 pm
The Preamble
Ben Smith has more of Obama's remarks in San Francisco. Here's what preceded the passage jumped on by Clinton, McCain et al:
Here's how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial
states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so
long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a
pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a
part of them just doesn't buy it. And when it's delivered by -- it's
true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack
Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism.
It is indeed easier to play the red-blue resentment game. We'll see if it still works ...
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