Interpreters prep for roles in presidential debate

“His is the voice of presidents, but tonight in Miami ”” after much study and meditation, an energy bar, almonds and water without ice ”” Vincente de la Vega will lend it to Barack Obama.

He will track the candidate’s mood and mannerisms, chart any eruptions of emotion, channel any tempests of tone. For 90 minutes the Havana-born de la Vega will do his best to “become” the African-American senator from Illinois.

Whatever Obama says during the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Miami, de la Vega will say it for him ”” in Spanish. Whenever Obama’s lips move, a national television audience of Spanish speakers will hear de la Vega’s supple baritone.”

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