Interesting, to say the least – American Thinker brings this to our attention from a March, 2008 NPR report (of all things):
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…
Obama says he risked his career to go out on a limb for the anti-war cause…but is this really the case? From the same story:
…So, just how much attention did the speech attract?
Bill Glauber, who covered the rally for the Chicago Tribune, says he didn’t even quote Obama.
“I guess other media was there,” Glauber says, “but we didn’t quote Barack Obama at his famous anti-war speech. He was not the main guy.”
Glauber says that he did not even mention Obama in his newspaper article on the rally and instead focused on the rally’s other speaker, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.(emphasis added)
An un-reported speech in a very blue State – hardly the high risk endevour Obama says it was…and given that he also trimmed towards a more pro-war stance during his 2004 Senate run, the whole story of Obama’s anti-war speech now has a large question mark about it. Certainly, Obama comes from the anti-war left of his party…but one wonders just how much of that speech as we know it today was re-crafted to appeal to leftwing primary voters in 2008? Anyone who would fake a speech for an ad is not someone to whom “scrupulously honest” can be applied to – Obama seeks to deceive if he believes such deception will help him win, and if a man will deceive once, he’ll do it again and again.
It just could be that the whole Obama story is a fraud from start to finish – a con job designed to advance only one thing, Obama. Any of you lefties feeling like suckers, yet?
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