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Obama Tells Allies He Is Ready to Hit Back

 

Published 8/19/2008 by Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman at Wash Post Elections

ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Monday after a week-long Hawaiian vacation and tried to assure anxious Democrats that he is ready to fight back against Republican character attacks that grew sharper in his absence. (link)

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