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Published 11/8/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics
The 'Friends of Barack' are neighbors, classmates and pickup basketball teammates. Some may follow him to Washington.
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At a tense point in Barack Obama's campaign, his closest friends got together and decided that, whatever it took, they would make him laugh.
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