What the Unearthed 1995 Video Tells Us about Obama

A professionally shot video of Barack Obama from 1995 has recently surfaced. Shot at the Cambridge, Mass. Public Library, the video captures a skinny, youthful Obama promoting his then newly released memoir, Dreams from My Father.

In this hour-long presentation, Obama openly talks about his relationship with his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist and pornographer. Perhaps more importantly, Obama gives us a much clearer picture of who he was in 1995, on the cusp of his political career, than we had seen before. Some observations:

The Obama of 1995 was not a very good speaker. He had a halting delivery, stuttered, was obviously nervous, and, although congenial enough, could not tell a joke. What Obama did do well was read. He read a dramatic passage from his book for a full fifteen minutes uninterrupted and used multiple voices halfway credibly.

Over the years, Obama’s handlers have exploited his ability to read and sheltered him as far as possible from impromptu speaking. Had Obama’s teleprompter malfunctioned during his breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he would not be president today. He has always depended on the eloquence of others, and he still cannot tell a joke.

The Obama of 1995 was not a firebrand, at least not on the surface. He presented himself to the small, roughly half-black Cambridge audience as an optimistic, easy-going liberal. In the question-and-answer session, he distinguished himself from the more obviously angry black professor Cornel West. “Cornel West has to go back to his Bible. Got to have faith,” said Obama in a black accent almost as cringe-inducing as the one Hillary rolls out on occasion. In fact, Obama turned that accent on throughout the presentation, especially when answering questions from black women.

Sorry folks. This is about 7+ years too late and many dollars too short. If anyone could stand to listen to his incessant droning for more than 5 seconds is beyond me anyway. The one thing that should make you all warm and fuzzy is that you will be honored to support him and moochie the rest of their lives. Dontcha just fell good now?

“The Obama of 1995 was not a very good speaker.”

Not much better now. His gait really annoys me and the “uhh” pauses. Lying is hard work as you have to formulate words that support your lie and still give you room to deflect any ownership.

and to think that there are some people who will continue to “assure” us that obies not coked up when he appears publicly in 2015...

that this has been on the net since at least 2011 and Ive never seen a ink to it before i find rather curious

I had a working companion who had worked as a reporter for a local radio station back around 1970. He had a tape of an interview with a naked man in a tree down on Dickson Street in Fayetteville Arkansas, during an anti-war demonstration. I tried to get him to release the tape back in 1991 but he would not.

The naked man’s name was William Jefferson Clinton.

Precisely. There was sufficient evidence in 2008 linking BHO to a motley collection of Communists, radicals, loons, and terrorists. One sermon from Rev. Wackadoodle should have been sufficient to raise the hair on your neck. And BHO stated on the campaign trail he wanted to transform America. He made it clear. Popular mass democracy has ruined America. Which is why our Founding Fathers set up a limited government republic. In the beginning of our republic, only property owners were permitted to vote in federal elections. I now see the wisdom of that concept.

“The Obama of 1995 was not a very good speaker. “

During the 2008 election the presstitutes assured us he was a ‘rhetorician’ and ‘speaks well’.
But darn it, every time his tewepwomper gets unplugged, he becomes a giggling mush mouthed moron.

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