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Obama Wannabe

Dan Damon Dan Damon | 08:38 UK time, Friday, 22 February 2008

Sometimes I'm too polite.

This week, I interviewed the man who wants to be the resident Barack Obama impersonator on Saturday Night Live - they're auditioning.

His name is and he's an actor with some network TV and movie work behind him.

Naturally, I asked him to give us a flavour of him being Obama.

It wasn't convincing, to put it politely. Having explained how well he understood the varying accents used by the Democratic hopeful, Ron then did some wordy speechifying - but as far as I could tell it was still the original Ron, nothing like Mr. Obama.

I wimped out - I really didn't feel I could tell an American he couldn't do an American accent.

So I thanked Ron effusively. After the programme the team said I should have told Ron bluntly what I thought. But I'm such a coward.

Anyway, he's already performed as Barack in a breakdance competition against a Hillary lookalike, so who am I to tell him he's not very good.

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