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Tanya
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 1:20 pm    Post subject: The odd couple Reply with quote
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/11/01029.shtml

Barack Obama Campaigning for Robert Byrd

"In the oddest political pairing in memory, the Senate's lone African-American member, Barack Obama, has become the number one campaigner for the Senate's only ex-Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd.

Working with MoveOn.org in March, Obama singlehandedly helped Byrd raise more money for his reelection fight next year than the one-time segregationist had ever raised before."
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Tex
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:39 pm    Post subject: Re: The odd couple Reply with quote
So I guess this would make him an "Uncle Tom", no?

Oh, wait, he's a Democrat. Never mind.
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