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  Can You Smell What Barack Is Cooking?

  Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:09 PM | By Christopher Beam

  "He talks in the third person a lot. That's just the way he speaks. It can make it hard for him to connect to the listener."

      -- Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn on Barack Obama, speaking to reporters after the Hanover, N.H., debate in September.
  

  “Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama's been there.”

      -- Barack Obama, speaking on ABC's Nightline Monday night.

  Bob Dole would be proud.

  Filed under: Barack Obama, Bob Dole

About Christopher Beam

• Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter.

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