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Japan Gives Obama and Favreau High Grades for Speeches

In this clip aired on Japan's NNN-TV on April 4, 2008, I grade Obama's speech making as close to 100%, and his speech writer Ron Favreau as the same. (Hillary Clinton gets substantially lower marks.) Complete news report at...

from YouTube on Tue, Apr 08 2008

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