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RandySF

(59,079 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 12:57 PM Mar 2012

Is THIS the 'smoking gun' Breitbart promised? (VIDEO)

If so, he just made me like Obama even more.


"In this video, not previously available online but licensed by BuzzFeed from a Boston television station, the future president speaks at a 1990 campus protest organized to demand tenure for minority and female law professors."


http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/at-harvard-obama-dived-into-diversity-fight

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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. The video is damning. It so obvious....
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:29 PM
Mar 2012

... that he's black. Why you can just see the blackness. Black. All over.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
3. Oh. My. God!
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:43 PM
Mar 2012

Seriously, the president is black?

Well, that simply will not do!

Why haven't we heard about this before?

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
10. Aha! But he got caught red handed
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 04:39 PM
Mar 2012

praising a black man. Which you're not supposed to do in public... or something like that.

MineralMan

(146,324 posts)
4. Why, President Obama is a black man.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:43 PM
Mar 2012

What a revelation! And there he was, praising another black man, too. The very idea....

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
5. To me what is surprising is how in syntax, tone and what he actually says how much he sounds like
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:54 PM
Mar 2012

Obama 2012. What it shows is that is how he spoke - long before he was a high level politician. It is who he is.

So, maybe the rightwing attack could be that, unlike Romney, Obama is completely consistent with his 1990 self!

Seriously, it was surprising hearing a voice that was unmistakably Obama - and then seeing that very young Obama. I think the RW deserves our thanks for finding something that verifies that Obama is who he says he is.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
12. Well we're seeing the raw footage. Breitbart is like the George Lucas of editing video to make
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 04:45 PM
Mar 2012

people look bad. He probably would have added in some dubbed dialogue and some CGI and stuff.

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
15. Everyone should read about the professor Obama was speaking in support of
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:27 PM
Mar 2012

The man has a remarkable biography, I think nearly every American would be impressed with Bell's accomplishments. It was pure racism that drove the Republicans to think attacking Bell would be effective, but Bell was a truly accomplished person and I am sure Obama is proud of this video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell

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