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Barack Obama is again an Internet sensation.
A 29-year-old Barack Obama.
Internet users are enjoying a 1991 television spot in which Obama — then a student at Harvard Law School — talks about pioneering African-American lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston.
Obama — longer hair, no gray — taped the spot as part of the “Black History Minute” series run by the TBS cable station in 1991.
Who could have guessed the heights that young man would have reached in less than two decades?
From Yahoo News:
When Barack Obama gave a rousing speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, it catapulted him to political fame and secured his place as one of the country’s best-known orators.
But a new viral video of the president shows he wasn’t always a natural.
In a 1991 ad for TBS’ “Black History Minute,” the then-Harvard Law Review editor appears a little less comfortable in front of the camera than he is today, and displays his reliance on the teleprompter. You can check out the video for yourself above.
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(Source: USA Today)
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I guess after that it was love at first sight between Barack and the teleprompter
Anyone else notice he has a much more distinct Chicago accent here?
No. 1: So you think maybe he really was born in the US?