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Obama takes the 'low drama' approach

Sep 10, 2008
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By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST AFTER BARACK OBAMA suffered a bruising loss when he took on entrenched U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago, Valerie Jarrett sat in the Obamas' kitchen and urged her friend not to run for the U.S. Senate in 2004. "If I'm not afraid of failure, neither can you be," Obama told his longtime friend when she warned of the dangers of two consecutive defeats. Jarrett, a senior Obama adviser,... [read full story]                    

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