02/27/2011
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"I've known Tim Russert since I first spoke at the convention in 2004. He's somebody who, over time, I came to consider not only a journalist but a friend. There wasn't a better interviewer in televisi..."
"But I also think these folks should lay off my wife."
"The Obama forces, meantime, unveiled a new Web site, fightthesmears.com, to answer rumors and attacks on the senator and his wife before they take hold."
"They hope to get all this attention about it to create the impression that Barack Obama is being grossly aggrieved so that, when other things come up, like Jeremiah Wright, like things Michelle Obama ..."