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The "Obama Tapes"

nee Wrote: Oct 03, 2012 3:01 PM

Val- really?. Carlson was covering the* printed* text, not the actual speech that we heard last night in it's entirety. When in the last 6 years have you heard Obama speak like a southerner might...seeing as he grew up in Hawaii, and Indonesia where they don't have an "American" bent to their speaking? PS Care to explain why references to Frank Marshall were scrubbed from the audio book of "Dreams From My Father"? Gee, I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that Marshall was a communist, hmm? You're a tool, Val and the Pied Piper will go down in flames like most of have known since the day he was elected.

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The "Obama Tapes"

The Daily Caller's taped speech of Barack Obama praising his pastor, bellowing about racism and generally pandering to an audience of black pastors isn't really the "game changer" that many might have hoped (or thought) it would be. Partisans on both sides may hope or fear it's big, but my sense is that normal people just aren't going to completely change their votes on the basis of it.

Indirectly, though, it does do some bot-insignificant damage to the President and his partisans in the press. Here's how:

1. The President - it presents Obama with an authenticity problem. The...