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By troublesum, August 28, 2008 at 8:36 am Link to this comment

So that’s all MLK’s dream was about - that a black man could run for president on a major party ticket?
Is this a great country or what?

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By Paracelsus, August 28, 2008 at 2:02 am Link to this comment

That’s no dream. That’s a frigging nightmare.

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