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Article: OK, OK, OK; sweet potato pie already: ; Obama's stump speech didn't stay freshened for long
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 24, 2008
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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 ...