STAYING IN THE GAME

A little of the fire he showed on the stump then comes back as he talks about a woman he met recently in North Carolina, "an African-American woman who had worked years in a wash house and has a little pizza franchise now. There was this guy with her who had helped her get her loan and he said, 'Tell how many people work for you,' and she said, 'There are eight of us.' Not 'seven people work for me,' but 'there are eight of us.' That's the kind of thing I want to make possible. There's an awful lot of good to be done, and that's how we ought to be thinking'' about the future--both for his family and for the country.

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