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And he knows—he has to know—that by doing so, he’s ingratiating himself with white audiences.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071208"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.progressive.org/img/FCBC4CD2-F504-4096-8D59-576AB14D38F1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071208"><P>And not just those white working class audiences that the mainstream media loves to talk about.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071208"><P>Obama has a bad habit of denouncing black people. 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