His was a strategy of “tell them what they want to hear”, and make sure you add a lot of wiggle room. Use present tense when your audience thinks you’re talking about the future. Dazzle them with weasel words.
Obama has been more successful than any black politician in the past, because he talks like a white radical. People like Jackson and Sharpton, and Jones and Wright just come out and tell you to your face what they’re thinking. They’ll never get anywhere doing that. Obama plays his cards a lot closer to his vest, and talks in broad generalities and euphemisms, more like Ayers and Holdren.
What you’re hearing is radical doublespeak. It’s like Arafat’s nicey-sounding speeches, that mean something very different in Arabic. Obama is a lot more like Ayers than Jones. He’s learned the Alinskyite art of mumblemarxism.
It’s not very effective in presidential speechifying, however. And he’s (and Axlerod, etc.) not smart enough to adapt methods. What you heard was the banality of poorly encrypted new-age Marxism.
