Help! Looking for an Obama Interview from 2007!

You see, back in 2007 I watched an interview with then candidate Obama wherein he actually discussed what he deemed his great strength as a candidate in the context of answering a question about if people who vote for him will end up being disappointed in a President Obama.

I remember the conversation with reasonable clarity BUT I do not remember who the interview was with, what channel ... though I'm pretty sure that it had to be before the election.

Here is why this is important: what Obama said about his strength as a candidate.

In essence he said that people who voted for him would often be disappointed because he will prove to not be the person that they thought they had voted for.

He said that his being an unknown was a considerable advantage because it meant that, without a ready made public persona, people would be free to invent or imagine their own personal "Obama" to vote for and that they would vote for THAT rather than him.

So when he wasn't THAT he said at the time that they would end up being disappointed ... but of course it would be too late by then.

You may recognize that the "Hope and Change" slogan was in fact perfectly suited to help take full advantage of, and indeed encourage, this kind of personalized delusions about Obama.

I have ever since maintained that here Obama let slip the very core of his deceptive and manipulative campaign strategy for 2007. That his supporters were played upon with great skill and forethought and that it was no mere invention of the moment that he pondered this was a strength that he had.

It was campaign stratagem #1 from the get go. Indeed, it may explain why those who advanced him wanted someone who was largely unknown to run.

Of course while I actually saw the exchange it doesn't matter one jot with a Democrat that I saw it because they haven't ... or if they have asking me to present it is a great way to debunk it without actually dealing with the truth of what I'm saying.

And of course I'm fully aware that I could show them the actual video and most will be able to explain it away ... after all it's just old news and I'm petty for bringing it up (just like so many Democrat misdeeds tend to become old news that they've got over and aren't troubled by those or anything only that bad or a little worse: or how I describe them never jumping out of the proverbial heating frying pan where a frog would).

AFTER he was safely in office, Obama's campaign PR person Anita Dunn (above) said the campaign NEVER answered media questions about Obama

Here's Anita Dunn praising mass-murderer Mao Tse Tung and his communist revolution before an audience of graduating ** high-schoolers**!("St. Andrews Episcopal school at the Washington National Cathedral"). A video link is provided at the end of this post.

Anita Dunn: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's.

"In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his own party on his own plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-Shek and the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army. ... They had everything on their side. And people said 'How can you win? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?'

"And Mao Tse Tung says, 'You fight your war and I'll fight mine.' You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things. ... You fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."..."
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Policies implemented under Mao Tse Tung, including the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and persecution in Tibet, among other policies, led to death of an estimated 65 million people, according to The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press), which is considered by scholars as one of the best sources on communist atrocities.

Mao also outlawed religion and sent at least 2.5 million people to “re-education camps,” called “laogai,” which were similar to the slave-labor camps in the Gulag of the Soviet Union. An estimated 1,000 laogai reportedly are still in operation today

http://web.archive.org/web/20100211203755/http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55665
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Beck Plays Explosive Video of WH Communications Director (Anita Dunn) Praising Mao (and his revolution):
http://web.archive.org/web/20100309181247/http://www.breitbart.tv/beck-plays-explosive-video-of-wh-communications-director-praising-mao

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