Article: OK, OK, OK; sweet potato pie already: ; Obama's stump speech didn't stay freshened for long

BARACK Obama likes sweet potato pie. But if he can't get sweet potato pie, he'll eat coconut cream pie.

That's what Obama ate in Georgetown, Ohio, recently while his friend, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, ate some lemon meringue pie.

I heard that more times than I really wanted to or needed to. You see, Obama made that vignette part of his stump speech.

And now that the cable news networks follow the presidential candidates around to nearly every one of these stump speeches, we learn that the candidates don't have a new speech for every rally they attend. They use the same stump speech over and over.

I learned that years ago from following a few big-name candidates around as they gave their ...

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