Web Letters: The Waitress Test

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By Connie Schultz

This article appeared in the July 14, 2008 edition of The Nation.

June 26, 2008

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  • Well, my mother told me, "Don't marry him until you see how he treats his mother". It seems that Obama holds his mother in high regard. Since she was the single mother raising him, he should have no problem relating and listening to working-class women.

    Kelli Francis

    Atlanta, GA

    07/02/2008 @ 3:54pm


  • Why is it that Senator Obama has to prove himself? He was raised by a single mother and Midwestern grandparents, how were the women and you also raised? Why aren't you asking the same of John McCain? Damn, you people are beginning to sound like Faux Noise, maybe you are going into the profit business.

    John Howard

    Leesville , LA

    07/02/2008 @ 10:28am


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