Like him, hate or loath him, Barack Obama was skilled at oratory. When he needed to channel a southern preacher, Obama would wade in hard and lay it on thick. It’s called code-switching. Obama was born into a white family. For the most part he was raised by his white-urbanite grandparents while in Hawaii, but facts never stopped or even slowed Obama in his quest to pander. And, they didn’t slow him down from preaching to the choir. Sometimes – literally, to a choir of southern black congregants.
Obama said that “they” (aka anyone who disagreed with him) “try to bamboozle you, hoodwink you.” That was Obama channeling Malcolm X.
Obama once told an interviewer that his “brothers and sisters” should pull up their pants and praised the interviewer on MTV with a “you look tight.” Never mind that Obama was raised thousands of miles from the South and he was a…
