[nutmeg]

This is not from the written Obama-approved transcript... Here's one of the "off script" Obama clips that Hannity played tonight:

"When Hurricane Andrew struck Florida, people said 'Look at this devastation! We don't expect you to come up with your own money... here!'"

"What's happening down in New Orleans? Where's your dollar? Where's your Stafford Act money? Makes no sense."

"Tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out." **sustained applause from the crowd**

"Tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans... they don't care about as much."

So what does the "Tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out." statement mean? It certainly got a reaction from the crowd...

[thecodont]

Doesn’t the bullet referred to come from another part of the (edited) speech, in which he related the story of a pregnant woman who was shot, and the bullet reached the child, who was delivered and found to be unharmed except for the bullet lodged in soft tissue?

[RaisingCain]

“So what does the “Tells me the bullet hasn’t been taken out.” statement mean? It certainly got a reaction from the crowd...”

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It’s a reference to the story he told at the beginning of the speech where he told of a baby who was shot in the arm, the bullet removed and the wound healed.

[92nina]

I think that phrase is meant to imply that the wound is still there. When someone gets shot, the bullet is removed and then healing can begin. He is implying that because there was no Stafford Act waiver, the bullet of racism is still in the victim, that it hasn't been removed, and healing has not taken place.

It is a metaphor.