Posted on 08/07/2008 9:51:51 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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The speech was given at an anti-war rally on Oct. 2, 2002.....Jessie Jackson was the main speaker. Obama's speech went mainly unnoticed. He had not yet announced his run for the Senate, although now he claims he risked his political career. Of course we know that there was NO risk in running against Alan Keyes, all Obama had to do was breathe..
The speech was given at an anti-war rally on Oct. 2, 2002.....He had not yet announced his run for the Senate, although now he claims he risked his political career. Of course we know that there was NO risk in running against Alan Keyes, all Obama had to do was breathe..
Gonyea says....."In an age of YouTube there is no video of the speech and only a snippet of audio. The Obama campaign has reenacted the speech in a campaign AD they are now running."
If there is no video available it would seem the entire Obama anti-war speech on which he is basing his Ad campaign may be faked. In fact the entire speech could be distorted.
Contemporary accounts don't even mention Obama - an insignificant state senator at the time (so much for putting his political career on the line for opposing the Iraq war in a district so far to the left, Che would win in a landslide). But since this report is from last March - a report by a mainstream news outlet - why this is the first we're hearing of Obama faking an anti-war ad.
Even in this era of YouTube and camera phones, a recording of Obama's speech is all but impossible to find. The Obama campaign has gone so far as to re-create portions of the speech for a television ad, with the candidate re-reading the text, with audience sound effects.
It comes with the territory of having "community organizer" a la Alinsky as your primary vocation and avocation. Truth is not a big part of their ends justifies the means ethos.
This is worse than finding out ‘KISS ALIVE!’ wasn’t all live.
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