Daily Poll: Is Video of Obama at a 1990 Harvard Law School Protest a Big Story?
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Recent video has surfaced of Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, speaking in 1990 on behalf of controversial professor Derrick Bell and then hugging him later in the segment. Some are claiming that the video is proof of President Obama's past radicalism and that its suppression in 2008 was meant to hide material that could damage the candidate's reputation.
Today we're wondering if this story will take off in the wider media or if it's no big deal. Is the 1990 video of Obama hugging a Harvard Law professor a big story? Vote Now on Facebook.
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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