Young Barack Obama: The Videos

By GottaLaff


Awww, youth, eloquence, and consistency:

This rare TV interview from 1995 will give you some insight. One thing is clear - the guy is consistent. He's been talking about post-racial, non-polarized politics for over a decade now.

These clips are from the television show "Connie Martinson Talks Books", and in them Obama discusses his newly published "Dreams From My Father". Obama must have been only 33 or 34 years old at the time, but he was already a thoughtful and eloquent conversationalist. [...]

One can see that Barack Obama was already starting to think about issues of poverty and race in a political context. He mentions the "race card", Rev. Wright, his absent father, and his white grandmother -- all issues that would become oh so relevant here in 2008.

It was also rather tragic to hear him mention his mother, since we know she would succumb to ovarian cancer later that year.

Parts 2 and 3 coming up! (Thank you, Padlock!)