On the recordOctober 8, 2009
I think it actually -- as a political matter, frankly, I think it kind of complicates his work here at home, makes it a little harder, because expectations will be all that much higher.
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Begala discusses how the Nobel Prize complicates Obama's domestic political work by raising expectations.
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