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Obama Rails Against Attacks From Palin, GOP

 

Published 9/5/2008 by Shailagh Murray at Wash Post Elections

YORK, Pa., Sept. 4 -- For the first two days of the Republican convention, Sen. Barack Obama resisted pushing back against the attacks emanating out of St. Paul. But on Thursday, the fourth and final day, his patience gave out, as he dismissed the barrage of criticism from the convention floor as... (link)

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