Barack Obama Then

Via the Dish:



There is a very interesting reader's letter posted at the Dish, which is well worth the read, but Andrew also put up this:

The above video, uploaded a few years ago, is making the rounds again. The following comment from "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" posted on The Blaze, Glenn Beck's site, illustrates our reader's email on many levels:

my question is – Why was Barak [sic] Obama, a nobody, selected to give this Black History Month moment? Usually someone who is known is selected. He hadn’t run for office yet, all he had done was graduate from Yale [sic]. So who recommended him for this and why was HE selected? That is the point I think Glen [sic] is trying to make and I ask the same question. Who was working behind the scenes. Who paid for his college expenses?

I don't understand the comment from the Beck website.  Could it maybe be that the guy was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, and that would seem like a good person to narrarate a significant black lawyer's contribution to history?  That would seem to be what using Occam's Razor would determine, as opposed to some large shadowy organization which brought Barack Obama along for more than 20 years.  Anyway, most conservatives would watch it and say he couldn't speak without a teleprompter then, either.  I just haven't figured out why so many conservatives don't think Obama is very intelligent.