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...most recent debate, he said, "Mom, I like the brown man's name. And he has some ideas that I can understand, too. He would be a good President. I would vote for him." The "brown man," Obama, will get my vote - on behalf of my son. Mary Walter, Chadds Ford Township...
Does Barack Obama have a class problem? He routinely demolishes Hillary Clinton among upper-middle-class "wine" Democrats. Among white working-class "beer" Democrats, however, he sometimes struggles. Traditionally, in Democratic contests, hops trump grapes: Walter Mondale beat Gary Hart in 1984, Bill Clinton beat Paul Tsongas in 1992, Al Gore beat Bill Bradley in 2000, and John Kerry beat Howard Dean in 2004--all by winning big among the Budweiser set. If Obama wins the nomination, he'll have done so with the most upscale coalition since Michael Dukakis' in 1988 or maybe even George McGovern...
...Jones Luke, BostonA very strong connection. A lot of people think that because I have been successful, I have forgotten that I grew up in Harlem. My father was killed when I was 3 years old, so I also grew up in a house with three women-same as Walter Lee. The anxiety that you feel when you may not become someone that you want to be, I was able to relate to that...
...harder to play Walter Lee on Broadway than on TV? -Alex Traum, Bellmore, N.Y.It was. I never did any live theater or had a starring role-it was at such an infantile stage of my acting career, and I wasn't as experienced as the other actors. I knew I had to take other extremes, so I built the set in my living room. I wanted to live in the surroundings I was going to play...
...successfully stormed Port Stanley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick had been the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Argentine Ambassador Takacs, an extraordinary accident of timing by the Argentines, if it was an accident. With Kirkpatrick at the function was Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel, the highest-ranking U.S. career diplomat. Trying to explain the embarrassment, the State Department said only that the affair had been scheduled long before the invasion. British Ambassador Henderson noted the attendance of Kirkpatrick and Stoessel at the dinner and declared sarcastically: "We are not thrilled...