When you watch the 2007 speech, below, note Obama’s newly acquired Southern accent. Where’d that come from?
With no re-election to worry about and no Hillary Clinton around to steal his thunder, President Obama must have felt free Saturday to speak in Selma, Ala., without fabricating stories about his ties to the civil rights movement.
But that didn’t mean Obama escaped his dishonest past. Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin reminded the world Saturday of a speech Obama delivered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 2007, when the then-senator was in the early stages of a presidential run and trying to make sure his African American bona fides were well recorded.
Because of the Selma march, “a young man named Barack Obama” was given the opportunity to come “over to this country,” where “he met this woman whose great-great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves,” the senator said just weeks before announcing his bid for the presidency, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “So they got together, and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Ala. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Ala.”
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