I think this could have been a factor if he hadn’t lied in the speech about his background making him sound like some poor kid with a single Mom. How many poor kids with a single Mom send their kids to a rich private school in Hawaii. He cannot help himself but stretch the truth and make it about himself. His Dad didn’t die when he was little but you would never know that from the speech.
Too many pundits are so fast to call it a good speech without bothering to check the details. ZERO is great at giving a speech and then when you check the details, you begin to find more and more that was not legit.
Rush calling it a conservative speech but not paying attention to the details was wrong IMHO. When a person lies giving a speech, it certainly is not conservative.
My two cents on the speech and why I think it will have little impact after a short time with his healthcare speech tomorrow night and when the pundits really look at what he had to sal.
On that point I actually feel sorry for Obama: from the perspective of a little kid, his father was worse than dead.