This evening the Daily Caller published the following stunning video featuring then Senator Obama on the campaign trail in June 2007, speaking at Hampton University in Virgina. Here’s the guy who promised to be the “President for all Americans,” embracing his inner racist:
Can’t quite place that dialect… Hawaii? Indonesia? Harvard?
Of course the Left is scrambling to downplay this video as old news – but that’s a false narrative;
Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a “transcript” of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign.
In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.
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The Obama administration has already dismissed the publication of this video as “desperate and pathetic.”
Funny, that’s exactly what I was thinking about the speech itself.
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Note: Full (almost 40 min.) version of video is available on the Daily Caller site HERE.
