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Reporter's Notebook: For Obama, emotions give way to reality

 

Published 1/5/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) — He arrived here for his new job feeling a bit melancholy about the move from Chicago, but President-elect Barack Obama has little time to mull over his emotions — he's been immediately hit with the sobering realities of the task ahead. There's the still-unfolding war in Gaza, a fresh reminder of the monumental [...] (link)

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