I am glad to see that Obama learned to take his hands out of his pockets when giving public speeches. It's a VAST improvement.

wow, those rolled up sleeves and beige chinos really make him look radical and scarey. almost as much as mitt romney

Sounds just like any other intelligent Ivy leaguer exercising his freedom of speech. He was eloquent even then.

Radical? I think the Obama campaign might want to use it. Intelligent, polite, confident, a natural leader.

Saul Alinsky must be somewhere in the audience!!!

Well - I guess the controversial Mitt Romney "Mormon tapes" are going to come out earlier than expected now. Sean Hannity is going to air this tape in "its entirety" (whatever) tonight. EPIC FAIL. I think as long as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have large audiences who blindly believe everything they say, Republicans may never win another Presidential election.
http://mankabros.com/blo...ans-may-never-win-again/

JPP @5 wrote:

Saul Alinsky must be somewhere in the audience!!!

If he was, it was a pretty profound moment given that, by the time this video was made, Alinsky was already 19 years dead!

I'm still waiting for some birther to claim Alinsky was Obama's uncle.

And all this time, we've been told there was never any proof that Obama ever went to college at all and no one could be found that remembered him . Seems like Breitbart killed two birds with one video. Thanks to him for giving two points for our side.

This is not the original video. This is edited and chopped to pieces. You people are retarded.

Joe. LOL. I take it you have the original.

It's so radical I think I'm going to run out at midnight and join a coven. And I'm not even a female.

@Joe

Love to see the Breitbart fanboys complaining about edited video.

Priceless.

That was funny Joe. I'm still laughing. You made my night!

Joe @ 9 said:

This is not the original video. This is edited and chopped to pieces. You people are retarded.

a) Sarah Palin dropped me a note to say she's really pissed off by your use of the word "retarded". She demands I remove your comment. But I won't! Freedom of speech!

2) You're right! That video was totally "selectively edited"! So I've now posted the full, unedited version as an UPDATE above. And you're right, it's just shocking! Shocking, I say! Thanks for holding our feet to the fire!

In the minds of these people (Breitbart and the like), these people are "uppity" blacks, feminazi's and other "radical" elements who continue to threaten and encroach on their idea of what America is supposed to be (a white, male dominated, Christian society). They feel so right (ie- correct) in their world view that they assume that ALL "correct" thinking people will feel the same as they do and will be appalled by this video. That is the mindset that would think that a video like this would "shock the world".

Yeah, Brad! What are you doing editing videos? Unlike Breitbart/O'Keefe.

This is shocking because of one thing: AFRO's. Who's shocked by AFRO's? Rightwingers. They were probably the same crowd that was pulling for the Washington Generals to beat the Globetrotters.

Ernest @7 wrote:

"If he (Alinsky) was (in the audience), it was a pretty profound moment given that, by the time this video was made, Alinsky was already 19 years dead!"
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Indeed! Like the issue of edited (?) videos, I was adapting to some well-deserved mockery of the radical reich, its own technique of fact-free political "discourse."

(Note that none of the trolls caught the point ?!?)

Consider, also, since Alinsky is "widely" reputed to be (yet another) incarnation of Satan, then his/its (re)appearance could hardly be assumed to be limited by mere human death.

Perhaps this is an appropriate place to recommend an interesting article: "The Right-Wing Id Unzipped"
http://tinyurl.com/7y2qu7j

Jeez, what a shame that Andy Breitbart didn't get a chance to swamp the Mouth Piece Media with a highly selective, deceptively edited version of this video before we the public got a chance to see the real thing.

What any president did in college or in a campaign is minor in comparison to what that president does in office. Obama is the first president to claim the right to kill Americans within the U.S. without a grand jury indictment, without counsel, without notice, and without a trial. He also had his two girls swim in the Gulf of Mexico to show ostensibly that oil spills really aren't that bad.

The first video is edited, but it was only taken out of the 2nd unedited video where Obama actually speaks. Otherwise, they are the same. No part of Obama's speech was edited.

What actually was "exposed"?

Alan King @19 wrote:

What actually was "exposed"?

The unedited video exposed the right-wing echo chamber as shameless propagandists who have no regard for the truth.

That said, I share Dredd's concern that the President's claim that the executive branch can serve as judge, jury and executioner, taking the lives of American citizens overseas without any resemblance to due process of law, is deeply troubling.

Ernie #20,

I can't get past the thought that something is pulling presidents, and the entire government for that matter, in a very disturbing direction.

I would love to wake up and find it just a dream, but I have sores all over me, figuratively speaking, from pinching myself trying to wake up to find the America I love is still there.

I can't do that, because it is not a dream, it is real.

Okay, Brad noted something that many other people have noted in passing that seems important, and I don't why...but he really has changed liitle since then, 20 years ago and a lot of living later...at time of this video he was just a kid lucky to get into Harvard Law School after doing a small time job a a stint as low prifle community organizer...siince this video, this guy got a book deal as first Af.Am. Havard law Review leader, met and got married to an accomplished, super smart woman,, had two kids, worked as a lawyer, taught law school, served in state legislature, won a senate election, ran in one of the most contested grueling Dem primaries in a long time beating a Clinton, was the first AFrican Am to win Presidency, and then while Presidency had to a fair bit of challnege and stress..faced the worst recession since great depression, deal with the auto industry Big 3 almost collapsing, strain of working to pass health care reform, deal with the 2010 repub reaction, manage Iraq and afghanistan wars with people high pressure on all sides, etc...but he all the difference I can see is he is a little wider and doesn't put his hands in his pockets when speaking.....who doesn't change more than that for the later 20s to 50 with all the living....

Behold the dangerous and subversive elements in our country: they have exposed themselves...but we can take them out easily now with a secret drone strike right here on US soil...
Oh wait...the guy who will sign that legislation IS the guy in the video...
Somebody please make sense of that...

Henry Y @23,

"Somebody please make sense of that ..."

Can't be done in a nation that says it is ok for another nation to kill 3,000 of our citizens in New York if those killers have lots of oil we are addicted to.

@Dredd: really? Do you REALLY believe that statement as an explanation for what is wrong with this country? I was eating lunch in a dingy diner in East Washington State listening to a couple of guys 'solving' this nation's problems while wearing cool-ass hunting clothes. I wanted to go ask them where they'd gone to school. My big plan was to let them know they needed to ask for a refund. I didn't say it to their faces b/c they are bigger than me & clearly knew how to operate the business end of a gun, and I have work to do. But I am afraid to say, Dredd, you too should ask for a refund. REALLY? You have done drunk de Kool-Aid! Do us all a favor & get over to OpEdNews.com and read up a bit. It might help you understand a LOT better why this country is swirling down the toilet... And it AIN'T THE SAUDI'S FAULT, already! Sheesh!! A five minute search can provide enough information to throw that 'conspiracy theory' out with the trash!!

Dredd @24,

by all counts, 9-11 was not an attack from one nation against another.

Al Qaeda is not a nation.

I wonder if those brainwashed by Biggov.com REALLY feel like this is such a hit, or if they realize that it really is a flop, but need to ACT excited about it because thats what they have been told to do?

Because this is such a bomb, i almost feel sorry for them

And that "tantalizing" murder conspiracy thing looks even more foolish now, than it did last week. (and thats saying something, but that whole trip just sounded bat-wing crazy.)

Breitbart picked up where Jerry Springer left off... getting people all freaked out over utter hogwash.

I just dont understand how such utter bs gets so much airplay.

I would say that this fact is, indeed, Breitbarts legacy, bur he was only the latest in a tradition of maniacal self-deception.

Sreebee @26: Sigh. Please. Do a google search on al quaeda, bin laden & cia. Al queda is a made up (BY the CIA) straw man. Bin laden's whole frickin' family did biz with the Bush Crime Family. Yes, the people who SUPPOSEDLY flew the SUPPOSED planes were mostly Saidi's, but this project was put together by OTHERS than the Saudi's. The EVIDENCE is there. Don't just spout what you read in the Mouthpiece Media. Please!! Do some research and figure it out. I'm very sorry but we just passed the 10th Anniversary. The info is EVERYWHERE. There is no law of physics or logic that can support the story fed to the World & the American people by OUR GOVERNMENT. Start with architects & engineers for 9/11 truth. Just GO. Watch the videos. Sigh.

sreebee @26,

Your conclusions are your own, and that is fine, of course.

But why not listen to the statements, under oath, in a federal trial going on in Manhattan, NY?

Why not listen to one of the 9/11 commissioners, the chairman of the senate committee who oversaw the 9/11 commission, Chris Matthews, a NY Times investigative reporter, and a CIA agent?

Why not listen scores of insurance companies and scores of big-time lawyers doing the case against Saudi Arabia?

The link in my comment up-thread is to an MSNBC video that says Saudi Arabia, a nation, substantially participated in 9/11.

It goes on to say "but that does not matter to the U.S. government now, or then, because Saudi Arabia has oil."

Not my words, their words.

Sophia and Dredd,

I appreciate where you are coming from, but I am sorry to respectfully disagree.

if you had ever been to the Middle East, Indonesia or Central Asia (and you write as if you should have), you would already know that Al Qaeda, while it may have members in Saudi Royalty, is in fact at war with that very establishment.

Its beef with America is the military grace which we lend to the Saudi royalty; even providing them with bombers they dont need, and planes that have no one to fly them.

You dont need American "mainstream media" to know that, you just have to be familiar with geopolitical complexes in the near East and Central Asia.

That doesnt mean that Al Qaeda doesnt have sympathizers in Saudi royalty, it just means that they are very, very VERY different communities.

i am not going to waste your time spelling it out, but please be aware of this.

There is a LOT more to this than what can be gleaned from only looking to American sources for information. Please understand that.

If you ONLY looking at American sources, then you already are introducing a very myopic view of the world.

You guys are looking at sources that reify only one accepted narrative, and develop a new narrative soley based on the previous.

Its just as much as saying that "news doesnt happen anywhere else in the world," or "when i close my eyes, everything stops happening."

There is so much more going on in the world, especially in relation to 9-11 and its fallout, that the American media wont address since it doesnt follow the accepted narrative.

You dont have access to that which is outside this complex, not because of censorship, but because other media isnt relevant to you.

Because media outlets in our nation wont address such issues, these matters fly under your radar.

That means you are working with an incomplete picture... really, we all are.

I dont mean that judgmentally, its just a fact.

And a problem for many of us in America is to try and explain 9-11 through simple, often quasi mythical devices.

So please make the effort to look at material that doesnt just come from US sources, ... that is if you are as on-fire about the matter as your posts convey. .

That being said, I very well aware about the Bush-Bin Laden family connection. The connection is real, but it does not form the glue to say that Al Qaeda IS, in effect, the same as Saudi Arabia.

Some would say that your conclusion is quite racist (eg, "one Arab equals all Arabs.") You might not see that subtext in what you are posting, but it is there.

Anyhow, this thread is more about what a sorry flop breitbarts posthumous campaign was. Since that is the case, i have nothing more to share about 9-11.

If you feel confident in your positions, my disagreements should pose no problem for you.

Regardless, please be aware that Al Qaeda is no more a "nation" than the Branch Davidians.

Thanks, have a good weekend.

Those operating from a center-left to radical-left perspective will find nothing upsetting in this video showing Barack Obama's warm regard for Derrick Bell and (apparently) his thought.

I'm sure many on the left and right are now boning up on Critical Race Theory with an eye to how it may be used for political advantage. Nothing in the postmodern trend known as Critical Studies, which I would characterize as a broadening of the Marxist theories of class consciousness, is really that weird, but some may find it uncomfortable to see these theories associated with Mr. Obama, who, after all, is the President of bourgeois and white male Americans as well as of members of the persecuted minorities, and needs some of their votes, too.

So the battle will be played out not over this video, but over Critical Race Theory, and it may be a harder sell for both the left and the right than the issue of socializing contraception vs. the Republican war on women, since it is not so readily reduced to bumper-stickers and ten-second sound bites.

But Critical Theory's elevation of the argument ad hominum to the central place in a theory of knowledge (knowing who you are suffices to judge the truth of your ideas) is unlikely be the path to moving the great center --- the middle class that Obama wants to please in this election year --- towards a more "socially enlightened" politics.

I don't know if Breitbart & Co. will be able to make the epistemological weaknesses of Critical Race Theory an issue in the remainder of the campaign, but just in case they can, I predict that one of Obama's spokespersons will soon make it clear that while he honors Professor Bell's contribution to the struggle for racial equality, he is "not an uncritical supporter of Critical Race Theory".

And so it will be heard throughout the land: "Critical Race Theory is not an issue in this campaign."