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I’m offering this without much comment, except to say that I hope Obama’s team is smart enough to dig this speech up and use it almost exactly the way this Youtuber has done. It’s a very effective argument.

As soon as I saw this, I thought of Eminem’s performance at the end of ‘Eight Mile’. If you reference everything your opponent plans to attack you with before he gets the chance to use it, it really cripples the effectiveness of the rhetoric.

A quick reminder, if you’ve never seen it:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqjBVxvB4Q]

Now check it out. It’s the same pre-emptive strike strategy. Slick:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2iufUU1f4]