trick photography?
Posted on 04/16/2015 9:39:36 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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…………………
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What difference does it make now?
Wow, he goes all out to identify with his audience.
After "David's" motorcycle wreck or that car wreck in HA?
Hmm, sort of hard to have a double earlobe one day and it is gone the next.
trick photography?
Transmission interrupted? “...hold on one second, I can’t hear myself...”
Here were some after thoughts that Jack had concerning this article:
“Further Thoughts on Obama’s 1995 Video”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/further_thoughts_on_obamas_1995_video.html
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Jack Cashill is very perceptive, he knew what Obama was before 2008. I remember reading his material about Obama back then and was very impressed with his observations. He seems to operate alone, somewhat affiliated with Worldnet Daily, but he is a prolific writer of books.
BTTT
BTTT...an addendum to the original article...author expounds on his thoughts...http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/further_thoughts_on_obamas_1995_video.html
Further Thoughts on Obama's 1995 Video"
At least five other authors Obama cites in Dreams -- Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin -- Bill Ayers cites in his writings as well. As an aside, both Obama and Ayers misspell Fanon's first name in the same way as "Franz." They both also incorrectly refer to the South African city of Sharpeville, the site of an incident iconic on the left, in the possessive as “Sharpsville” or “Sharpesville.”
Although I could find no example of Ayers spelling “Du Bois,” I cannot believe he would mispronounce it. If he had, his buddies in the Weather Underground would have smoked him out as an FBI plant.
Interesting... Hard to believe Obama could live in Hyde Park and not know how to pronounce old W.E.B. 's last name. Maybe he wasn't particularily political even back then...
For later.
Is it just me, or did Jackson somehow change the size of the dark part of his eyes in the third photo? Contacts?
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