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>Obama’s Symbolic Importance | The Trail | washingtonpost.com:Obama’s Symbolic Importance
7/30/08
By Jonathan Weisman
In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.
Obama was waxing lyrical about last week’s trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, ‘this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for.’
The 200,000 souls who thronged to his speech in Berlin came not just for him, he told the enthralled audience of congressional representatives. ‘I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions,’ he said, according to the source.”
Ooh, so that’s kinda PRESUMPTUOUS! Wonder how it played on Morning Joe?
Wait, coming in now….we have some context…
The Page – by Mark Halperin – TIME: “
‘His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him. The Post left out the important first half of the sentence, which was something along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol … .’”
