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11:06 AM, Jun 24, 2008 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

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Here's Sam Anderson in New York magazine on Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention:

"In ten minutes, America watched him rip off the rumpled suit of anonymous, mild-mannered state-senatorhood and squeeze into the gaudy cape and tights of our national oratorical superhero -- a honey-tongued Frankenfusion of Lincoln, Gandhi, Cicero, Jesus, and all our most cherished national acronyms (MLK, JFK, RFK, FDR)."

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