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I Have To Ask.(Audition)(Critical essay)

The New Yorker

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Barack Obama walked onto the set of "The View" a few weeks ago and sat down. It took a moment for the fluttering to die down. When it did, Barbara Walters turned to him and said, "We were just saying before you came out--maybe we shouldn't say this, but we thought you were very sexy-looking." Walters then turned her gaze to the cheering audience, as Obama grinned and pretended to fan himself with his hands. There was more fluttering.

Then Walters picked up a sheaf of notes on her lap and got down to business. "O.K., so here we go. . . . You've condemned the racist comments made by Reverend Wright, but you haven't disowned him. But when Don Imus made racist ...

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