WHAT IS THE 'LIER' AND WAHT IS NOT A SURPRIZE



Finding Archives Lacking, Obama Returns to 2002
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Published: October 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — Last week, Senator Barack Obama’s chief
strategist lamented that he had only 14 seconds of video from what his
presidential campaign believes to be a moment of political gold: Mr.
Obama’s 2002 speech against the Iraq war just nine days before
Congress, with support from several of his primary campaign opponents,
authorized the invasion.

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Candidate Topic PagesMore Politics NewsOn Thursday, it seemed that the
strategist, David Axelrod, had found a solution when the Obama
campaign released an Internet advertisement that featured crystal-
clear audio of the speech. In the advertisement, Mr. Obama’s voice
played as the screen flashed photographs of Mr. Obama and fire-and-
brimstone images of war.

But, campaign officials said late Thursday, the audio excerpt was not
from the actual speech, but was a recently recorded version of it.