Late in the day on Friday, July 13 th , President Obama mounted the stage of Historic Firehouse Number One in Roanoke , Virginia . The room held around 800 people but it was hot and several people fainted. In front of a carefully screened group of supporters he gave one of the most important speeches of his reelection campaign. It was not meant to be a major speech. That will come in the even more carefully scripted Convention Hall in Charlotte , North Carolina this September in front of adoring media and rabid political supporters. But this speech in Roanoke is crucial to the 2012 election because on Friday, in Virginia , President Obama went off message. Whether through error or hubris, he abandoned his script and spoke off the cuff. And in so doing, he showed us the man behind the curtain. The angry but controlled, insecure yet charismatic, market fearful, socialistically inclined man that Barrack Obama really is. I am speaking, of course, of the now famou
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