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Obama In 1995
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... A blogger has dug up an interesting television interview with Obama on his first book from thirteen years ago. Fascinating to see how many themes remain the same, and how, even at that young age, Obama seems preternaturally composed. It's also striking to me, given how so many have raised questions about his membership inTUCC, that his determination to confront racial polarization and his cultural centrism (as well as liberal politics) have always been front and center. Here's one clip. Judge for yourself: ...

Obama, unchanged
Ben Smith's Blog — A pro-Obama blogger turns up this 1995 video which reveals that Obama was...exactly the same 13 years ago. He tells the story of his grandmother visiting his African-American Chicago world for the first time, and speaks warmly (as he does in Dreams for My Father, which he's promoting) of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Andrew Sullivan sees the consistency in "his determination to confront racial polarization and his cultural centrism (as well as liberal politics)." There's also, though, an analytical detachment, even when talking ...

Quote of the Day
Political Animal — QUOTE OF THE DAY.... From Barack Obama, in 1995, telling a story about the first time his grandmother came to Chicago to meet his in-laws: My grandmother walks in, it's all black people in the room, she's the only white person there except for my mother, and she's feeling a little nervous and a little out of place. And she suddenly sees this table set with fried chicken, and succotash, and a jello mold, and suddenly she realizes that she has a culture that she's sharing with all these people. Ah, the healing balm of Jell-O . It really does bring us all together. ( ...

Amanda Carpenter: Video Surfaces of Obama Praising Wright
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... is highlighting an old video of Barack Obama praising his controversial friend and former pastor Rev.Jeremiah Wright. Oddly enough, the vids ( there are actually three ) are being ...