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The forgotten American listens to Hillary and Barack and thinks all these promises are nice and well and good, but figures that they expect someone like herself to pay for all those programs for all those who chose to live life differently than she did—for whom in most cases there was as much or more chances than she had. She wants to pay taxes and help, but shrugs that those who receive think it’s never enough—resentment, not gratitude is their more appropriate response for government help. And she assumes that Hillary and Barak, given what they make, don’t much care...

Clinton escalated her attack on Obama’s qualifications to be president on Saturday, arguing that both she and the presumptive Republican nominee, McCain, could offer voters a “lifetime of experience” while Mr. Obama could only hold out his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war. ... Mr. Obama, meanwhile, mocked Mrs. Clinton’s credentials as a self-professed agent of change, saying she had come down on both sides of the Nafta trade deal and criticizing her reasoning for voting in 2002 for the invasion of Iraq. “Real change isn’t voting for George Bush’s war in Iraq and then telling the American people it...