This November, Vote for a New Country

Speaking of Obama , as I was walking to the grocery store last night, I noticed a fashionably dressed elderly woman wearing a shirt that read: “Obama is the New America.”

The New America? What exactly are we voting for in November? A new energy policy or a new foreign policy, or a new country altogether? What about the old America? What about baseball and crackerjacks?

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