I found this over at http://www.democraticunderground.com...
in a post by EffieBrown
This Week with George Stephanopoulos, May 13, 2007:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You have a very cool style when you're doing those town meetings where you're out on the campaign trail, and I wonder, how much of that is tied to your race?
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: That's interesting.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: One of your friends told "The New Yorker" magazine that the mainstream is just not ready for a fire-breathing black man so do you turn down the temperature on purpose?
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: You know, I don't think it has to do with race. I think it has to do with when I'm campaigning I'm in a conversation, and what I don't do when I'm campaigning is to try to press a lot of hot buttons and use a lot of cheap applause lines because I want people to get a sense of how I think about this process, I want them to have some ability to walk through with me the difficult choices that we face.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/...
The above video is the full interview. Skip to 19:07.
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Here's Bill Moyers' discussing this comment:
http://www.pbs.org/...
What is amazing is how diplomatically Obama handled the questions. I'm imagining what Obama really wanted to say back to the guy.