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Monday, December 10, 2007 12:00 AM

The Oprah Winfrey show

The TV host accompanies her chosen candidate to South Carolina as Barack Obama closes on Hillary Clinton in the polls.
By Thomas F. Schaller

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Monday, December 10, 2007 03:56 AM

Ebonics?

What's with the put-on "black" English when Oprah and Obama were addressing the crowds in South Carolina? Okay, Oprah is reaching back for her roots, but Obama??? Was he being black or was he being southern or was he just being phoney? He sure didn't sound like the man I heard in Iowa.

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