Unseen video: Obama protesting at Harvard in 1990 for diversity in hiring

[jefferson_dem]

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

[onehandle]

1. Get a job, hippies!

Harvard is know for its hippies, right?

[monmouth]

2. Would this have been breitbart's video of POTUS back in Harvard...Excellent young Obama...n/t

[VWolf]

3. ZOMG!! What a scandal!!!

Did you see how many times young Obama put his hands in his pockets???

What is he hiding???!!!??!?!?111

[Broderick]

5. It isn't a teleprompter

Maybe he reads braille, and notes are in that form in his pocket.

[monmouth]

9. Hahaha, his cigs I'd bet...n/t

[Broderick]

4. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[alp227]

6. of course, youtube isn't known for civility in comments, so DU the comment section!

By voting up good comments, voting down the bigoted ones. And if this is all that Andrew Breitbart can come up with...pfffft. What a pathetic legacy of Breitbart.

[crunch60]

10. Bieitart said he would release a tape that would change the election. So this is

is the tape? Good for you President Obama! This is a good thing. Now you will surely win!

Before Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death, the conservative blogger and journalist had promised to release video footage of President Barack Obama that he said would change the election. Now, BuzzFeed has unearthed the video it believes Breitbart was referring to, according to the site's editor-in-chief, Ben Smith.

If this is indeed the footage in question, it's not particularly controversial

[JDPriestly]

20. I think this video shows that Obama's charm and kindness are natural parts of his

personality, not just an act put on for political gain.

Only a really rabid racist could find this speech shocking. I just don't get the excitement about this.

[pacalo]

23. Perhaps Breitbart hadn't gotten around to splicing the film into something scandalous?

This video only shows that Obama was as impressive then as he is now, so I'm not getting how this film will change the election. By getting him more votes?

[jefferson_dem]

7. Apparently, this was Breitbart's "big scary scoop" on young Barack.

Here's an ABC report:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/video-emerges-of-obama-in-1991-rallying-for-diversity-at-harvard-law-school/

FauxNews will run the whole video today...

[freshstart]

14. PBS explains it, it seems to have come from them.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/the-story-behind-the-obama-law-school-speech-video/

They have the story and video and describe its origins. They used in in '08 so it wasn't "unseen."

[Grassy Knoll]

15. I just saw the whole video, thanks, but what is the scandal ?

Is Derrick Bell the next Jeremiah Wright, BigFraud.org must be pissed it was released
in full before they could chop it up , not to Bright Bart. Oh Wait, what?... Derrick Bell
is a black Harvard professor, I'm So Sorry Hannity, Carry On.

[freshstart]

17. Scandal?

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I have no idea! I guess Hannity's ratings are down and they are trying to get the fools to tune in tonight. I just saw a clip of Hannity on Mediaite, they are saying the "scandal" is that another professor said the tape was hidden. How hidden was it if it aired on PBS?...and it is the same tape. These people are nuts.

[MADem]

8. Ooooh, look at that radical clothing!

I'll bet he got that stuff at Brooks Brothers!

[Thrill]

11. How is this supposed to hurt the President?

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[JBoy]

12. Fascinating! He's got the same speaking rhythm and style.

No notes. Just communicating.

[rtassi]

21. you can't teach that ... he has a natural ease in front of people

[DesertFlower]

13. i love it. he was born

to be a leader.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

16. He Was Brilliant And Inspirational, Even Then.

Wow, Just look at those faces as they listen to him!

Judging from the YouTube comments: they didn't even listen to his words...
They didn't "open up their hearts" and they, sure didn't "open up their minds!"

[cheapdate]

18. Good for him.

There were some troubling sections in the the NDAA of 2011. I'm disappointed with congress for presenting the president with such a vitally important, and yet deeply flawed bill. While I recognize the difficult choice the president was given to either sign, or not to sign this bill authorizing spending to support ongoing military operations, I remain troubled with the president's choice to sign.

But the fact that Barack Obama was active in 1990 in standing up for an issue that was important to him - diversity among Harvard's faculty - does not trouble me. Good for him.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. This is scandalous!

[amuse bouche]

22. How is this Brietbart's big get?

It just shows how genuine our president is. But it is uncanny how his speaking style has not changed.

Very impressive

[SunSeeker]

24. Wow, even as a college student, he had that tingle up the leg effect.

He was born to lead alright. That's why his parents rushed him to Hawaii and forged that birth certificate (sarcasm).

Man, I think of how I--and everyone I knew--was in college, and we weren't anything close to that. Like some have said up the thread, you can't teach that, you either have it or you don't. Sigh. Glad he's our President.

[90-percent]

25. I'm glad I voted for him

That beautiful man was so eloquent and generous and gracious, even back then.

His voice could have spoken those words just yesterday. It's only when I could glean a bit of a youthful fro instead of a Presidential crew cut that I realized it was Obama as a younger man.

-90% Jimmy

Not meant as an unconditional endorsement. Things don't sit all right for this here Constitutional Fundamentalist

[Rhiannon12866]

26. K&R! Wow! He had "it" even back then, didn't he?! Great speaker...

Thanks so much for posting this. He's just gotten better with time...

[UCmeNdc]

27. This film has been on the internet for years!

How is this a breaking news story?


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/07/pbs-already-published-breitbarts-obama-tapes/

[amuse bouche]

28. The desperation is laughable

What pathetic goons the GOP has become

[NYC Liberal]

29. This is a "scandal"? Imo this should be used in a commercial for the Obama campaign!