Get ready for Republicans to use Obama's "Dreams" against him

By GottaLaff

Barack Obama recorded a Grammy-winning audio version of Dreams from My Father. His voice can be heard speaking about his "youthful" adventures, including drugs, Reverend Wright, and racial slurs uttered by others.

Republicans are salivating at the prospect of using excerpts against Obama:

Obama describes the sermon as “a meditation on a fallen world. … Rev. Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.”

Other potentially troublesome clips feature Obama swearing and quoting others using racial slurs. [...]

In a passage describing his high school experience in Hawaii, for example, Obama explains the allure of drugs: “I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically. … If the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down,” Obama intones, “it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly.”

While many voters know that Obama used drugs as a young man, they haven’t heard the senator describe his drug use in those terms, or in his own voice.

If you listen carefully, you can already hear the heavy panting, over there, to your right:

“My copy of his book is dog-eared and covered with yellow marker,” said Floyd Brown, a longtime conservative activist whom Obama recently cited by name as a prototypical political mudslinger. Brown added that the audio should be even more effective in bashing Obama.

“I expect to use his words a lot in the ads that I do,” Brown said. “And I would highly encourage other independent efforts — or the [McCain] campaign itself — to do the same thing.” [...] “What we’re doing now is test-marketing messages.”

But then there is this:

Some Republicans, though, remain skeptical. One consultant with experience in the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign warned that it “would be dramatically stupid” to use the audio in attack ads. “This country has elected two straight presidents who have tacitly or overtly admitted drug use. I don’t think it’s going to work.”

Imagine what a recording of John McC-Word would do. Nobody would pay attention, though. They only perk up when it's about the Muslim terrorist candidate.