But isn’t this an altered version? I seem to remember this article stating that Obama himself repeated the call with a perfect accent.
Oooops.
The correct article is Obama: Man of the World, by Nicholas Kristof and published on March 6th, 2007. Your link goes to Obama and the Bigots of March 9th, 2007, not to the story Obama: Man of the World.
If you look at the very bottom of the picture in the article posted here at Free Republic, you can also see the actual article title. I can see where there can be some confusion, since the blogger doesn't actually show the correct link anywhere that I see in the article or in her older article on the subject (instead, confusingly, the blogger talks about the later March 9th story rather than the original March 6th story.)
Over the last several months, I have used the link http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html to link Obama: Man of the World in several postings about Senator Obama's public recitation of the shahada to the New York Times.
In fact, I just used it yesterday in this posting #982, and noted at that time that it was broken. (I have to admit that I suspect that the blogger picked up the fact that the link was broken from me, but the blogger doesn't make such an attribution so perhaps it was noticed independently.)
However, it does seem to continue to be broken, just as the blogger reports.