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	<title>Comments on: Does Small Town USA Hate Obama?</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Joy</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27859</link>
		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isabel, you are crazy, as usuall!!

And I like it!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isabel, you are crazy, as usuall!!</p>
<p>And I like it!!</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27856</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isabel #116........ LOL (I could actually see that picture you painted) - well written, amusing (just plain funny)!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isabel #116&#8230;&#8230;.. LOL (I could actually see that picture you painted) - well written, amusing (just plain funny)!</p>
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		<title>By: Isabel</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27837</link>
		<dc:creator>Isabel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 03:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of the devil, Al Gore....if Obama is not picked to be our god, maybe Al Gore can invite him on his crusade to save the earth.  He can nominate Obama to study the penguins in the arctic region; Michelle can make herself at home in an iglo far from the mean people.  The girls can raise little penguins while being home schooled away from the mean people.  Reverend shaker can visit whenever he can catch a piece of ice by using his hands to paddle.  The energy required for these feats should cure all their ills and hatred  --  not to mention the whiteness surrounding them and the expansive clear horizon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of the devil, Al Gore&#8230;.if Obama is not picked to be our god, maybe Al Gore can invite him on his crusade to save the earth.  He can nominate Obama to study the penguins in the arctic region; Michelle can make herself at home in an iglo far from the mean people.  The girls can raise little penguins while being home schooled away from the mean people.  Reverend shaker can visit whenever he can catch a piece of ice by using his hands to paddle.  The energy required for these feats should cure all their ills and hatred  &#8212;  not to mention the whiteness surrounding them and the expansive clear horizon.</p>
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		<title>By: freida</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27778</link>
		<dc:creator>freida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I can already tell, when Hillary wins, everyone will be on that 'same old bandwagon' like when Bush won and Al Gore didn't.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I can already tell, when Hillary wins, everyone will be on that &#8217;same old bandwagon&#8217; like when Bush won and Al Gore didn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Joni</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27776</link>
		<dc:creator>Joni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anne: I agree with your post #111. It does indeed tell what kind of wonderful person she is. She is very fair minded and doesn't jump to all the wrong conclusions the way some others do, or twist things around to fit into their own warped minds. Those people absolutely refuse to see the truth.

They remind me of the Virgie gang.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne: I agree with your post #111. It does indeed tell what kind of wonderful person she is. She is very fair minded and doesn&#8217;t jump to all the wrong conclusions the way some others do, or twist things around to fit into their own warped minds. Those people absolutely refuse to see the truth.</p>
<p>They remind me of the Virgie gang.</p>
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		<title>By: Joy</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27769</link>
		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anne, thanks a lot, but believe me I am fighting my evil self everyday!!

Isabel, talk about accents.  I even bought a CD on how to sound like an American, and it did not help a bit!!

And that "how cute", I always take it with a whole teaspoon of salt!

Even when I write I feel uncomfortable,  I feel maybe I am even writing with an accent?!   Oh well, nothing we can do about it, I suppose.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne, thanks a lot, but believe me I am fighting my evil self everyday!!</p>
<p>Isabel, talk about accents.  I even bought a CD on how to sound like an American, and it did not help a bit!!</p>
<p>And that &#8220;how cute&#8221;, I always take it with a whole teaspoon of salt!</p>
<p>Even when I write I feel uncomfortable,  I feel maybe I am even writing with an accent?!   Oh well, nothing we can do about it, I suppose.</p>
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		<title>By: Isabel</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27737</link>
		<dc:creator>Isabel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 10:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>P.S.  If making comments about one's manner of speech or accent is not "racist", think again.  It is also intrusive and unkind.  To those people who tell me how much they "love" my accent, I would very much like to tell them to drop dead.  There is also the "how cute!"  "Where are you from?"  If only I could answer their question by pointing out something about them that sticks out like a sore thumb, I would happily do so but never have out of politeness.

The moral of the story is, everybody puts up with crap on this earth.  No one is immune.  On the other hand, I could get on the pulpit and shout all the ugly answers I would love to give to those willing to flock around me.  A silly robe and idiotic body tremors would complete the picture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P.S.  If making comments about one&#8217;s manner of speech or accent is not &#8220;racist&#8221;, think again.  It is also intrusive and unkind.  To those people who tell me how much they &#8220;love&#8221; my accent, I would very much like to tell them to drop dead.  There is also the &#8220;how cute!&#8221;  &#8220;Where are you from?&#8221;  If only I could answer their question by pointing out something about them that sticks out like a sore thumb, I would happily do so but never have out of politeness.</p>
<p>The moral of the story is, everybody puts up with crap on this earth.  No one is immune.  On the other hand, I could get on the pulpit and shout all the ugly answers I would love to give to those willing to flock around me.  A silly robe and idiotic body tremors would complete the picture.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27735</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joy.......... Your apology to Real Mish was very nice and sweet.  Says a lot about the wonderful person you must be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Your apology to Real Mish was very nice and sweet.  Says a lot about the wonderful person you must be.</p>
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		<title>By: Isabel</title>
		<link>http://www.artharris.com/2008/04/12/does-small-town-usa-hate-obama/#comment-27733</link>
		<dc:creator>Isabel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, well.  Each of us have our own minds made up and nobody is going to change it.  How about that?

I have read that after the age of eleven, the part of the brain that controls speech is no longer as malleable, so if you learn a language after the brain is "set" in its ways, it is difficult to speak without an accent.  I was fifteen when I came here, so you guessed it!  I have an accent which puts me in a negative light as soon as I open my mouth.  For forty four years I have had to deal with people thinking negatively of me and if I get nervous and forget a word, they immediately think I cannot speak the language and treat me as if I were a stupid idiot.  Since I never speak anything else but English, my birth language is even worse because I simply cannot speak it and no longer understand it fully.  Regardless of not belonging in either country speechwise, I feel American, I am American and I cannot tolerate other nation's stupidity toward this country.

I am not comparing my negative experiences with another person's bad experiences, but to me, my life has not been a bowl of cherries --  and that bowl of rotten cherries does not even include my two "dreamy" marriages to two worthless frogs.  We all go through our own hell and to each one of us it is the worst imaginable experience.

Jangie, I wish I had been lynched while I was still innocent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, well.  Each of us have our own minds made up and nobody is going to change it.  How about that?</p>
<p>I have read that after the age of eleven, the part of the brain that controls speech is no longer as malleable, so if you learn a language after the brain is &#8220;set&#8221; in its ways, it is difficult to speak without an accent.  I was fifteen when I came here, so you guessed it!  I have an accent which puts me in a negative light as soon as I open my mouth.  For forty four years I have had to deal with people thinking negatively of me and if I get nervous and forget a word, they immediately think I cannot speak the language and treat me as if I were a stupid idiot.  Since I never speak anything else but English, my birth language is even worse because I simply cannot speak it and no longer understand it fully.  Regardless of not belonging in either country speechwise, I feel American, I am American and I cannot tolerate other nation&#8217;s stupidity toward this country.</p>
<p>I am not comparing my negative experiences with another person&#8217;s bad experiences, but to me, my life has not been a bowl of cherries &#8212;  and that bowl of rotten cherries does not even include my two &#8220;dreamy&#8221; marriages to two worthless frogs.  We all go through our own hell and to each one of us it is the worst imaginable experience.</p>
<p>Jangie, I wish I had been lynched while I was still innocent.</p>
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		<title>By: freida</title>
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		<dc:creator>freida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 23:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, Joy and Mish...I feel like a jerk, too...paying for this!!!

So, much more could be done instead of paying for this!!!

Whatcha say, maybe we're all a bunch of dumb monkeys?

I know I am.

And, although I really don't want to, I think I'm gonna have to give up and stop paying for 'Cable Internet and Television and Gasoline,' too!!!

LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, Joy and Mish&#8230;I feel like a jerk, too&#8230;paying for this!!!</p>
<p>So, much more could be done instead of paying for this!!!</p>
<p>Whatcha say, maybe we&#8217;re all a bunch of dumb monkeys?</p>
<p>I know I am.</p>
<p>And, although I really don&#8217;t want to, I think I&#8217;m gonna have to give up and stop paying for &#8216;Cable Internet and Television and Gasoline,&#8217; too!!!</p>
<p>LOL</p>
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