Br'er Barack or Barack Obama's excellent "rope a dope" ploy

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 · 5:58 PM PDT

2012/10/17 · 17:58

Massa Mitt, please don't make me hit yo up side da haid.

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 3:30 PM PST

2009/02/10 · 15:30

Standing up for what you believe in is not easy. If any politician knows this, it is Arlen Specter. When this man first came to my attention it was in connection with the assassination of John Kennedy. I can tell you Senator Specter’s explanation of the "magic bullet theory" was not popular with everyone. After that, I had no respect for the man. However, I did respect one Mr. John Rich, the patriarch of the family that founded Woolrich Woolen Mill. As a young man I happened to be in a conversation with the elderly Mr. Rich and somehow Arlen’s name came up. I scoffed at the mere mention. The old man leveled his gaze at me and with quiet conviction said to me. "Arlen is a friend of mine, and I can tell you one thing for certain. If Arlen says something, you can believe it." At the time that incident did nothing to raise my opinion of the senator and tarnished my appreciation for Mr. Rich.

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 5:06 PM PST

2009/01/28 · 17:06

Not a day goes by without some comparison of our new president with another gentleman from Illinois. I must confess that I have long harbored the opinion that the two had more in common that the state that first sent them to Washington. I came to that impression during his speech at the Democratic Convention of 2004. In each man I saw the ability to respect the rights and principles of the opposition while fearlessly standing in opposition to the abuse of liberty.
When history is written, it seems likely that Obama’s speech in Boston will occupy the same niche in his biography as Lincoln’s Coopers Union Address does to the earlier president’s life history. If this be so, it may prove useful to remember the import of that speech delivered in New York almost a century and one half past.

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