On Nov 6, 10:16 pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 12:32 am, pellicleund...@hotmail.com (obakesan) wrote:
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> > HiYa
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> > In article <j9wQk.15$oJ...@read4.inet.fi>, pellicleund...@hotmail.com
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> > (obakesan) wrote:
> > >HiYa
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> > >In article <c16394d0-12ab-45f5-8a98-f767b9027...@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
> > >"John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>A coworker constantly complained about Obama and praised McCain. He
> > >>didn't like me telling him that only one of the candidates grew up in
> > >>a middle-class white household, and it ain't McCain.
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> > >>John W.
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> > >I know next to nothing about Obama, but I didn't know he grew up in a middle
> > >class white household. I thought he was an exchange student form Keenya.
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> > ok ... I thought I should look it up
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> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Barack_Obama
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> > handy stuff this internet thing
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> > interesting history on the lad. I hope he's not shot by some dope
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> My wife and I were talking about the nightmare of trying to protect
> him for at least 4 years, maybe more. I am, for maybe the first time,
> truly ashamed of the way some of my fellow Americans are reacting;
> some people are saying some scary stuff (the religious right thinks
> he's the anti christ, among other things). You'd think we hadn't
> abolished slavery 143 years ago, hadn't had a civil rights movement,
> hadn't had The Cosby Show.

His speech at Grant Park the other night was made from a podium
sandwiched between two sheets of bulletproof glass arranged like giant
bookends. Lovely use of camera angles in retrospect.