Very, very well said…

He definitely hadn’t bothered to learn his lines. He clutched a pad of notes which he fumblingly glanced at from time to time. “Barack Obama does not have the experience to be president of the United States,” he began, evoking a pantomime “Boo!” from the crowd. “I can prove it. He wasn’t experienced enough to vote to authorise the invasion of Iraq.”

Nor is he, De Niro went on, experienced enough to let special interests run the government; or to make secret deals in the back rooms of power; or to leave millions of our friends and neighbours in poverty. “That’s the kind of inexperience I could get used to.”

As can I, as can I. Just ask the people of Illinois if Barack Obama can beat Republicans. Just ask his fellow Senators if he can get things done.

Barack Obama is a man who can win in November. He is a man who can lead this country to heights we haven’t yet dreamed of, and he is a man who can bring the country together in ways that we haven’t yet seen. The time is now.

DeNiro Learns New Lines for Obama: Guardian Unlimited

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