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Cyrano
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Fri Jan-04-08 01:19 PM
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| 10. I don't think most people were voting for a "symbol." I believe that |
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they stood behind someone who they thought would be a good president.
I don't know how old you are, but I lived through the civil rights era. Few thought that what happened in Iowa yesterday would ever come to be.
I believe that people went for Obama for many reasons, but the color of his skin was not one of them. I don't know what you call that, but I call it progress.
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