Barack Obama on the Burden of the Political Spotlight

By Ed Gordon

Published February 7, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

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NPR's Ed Gordon talks with Barack Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois who rose to national prominence with his keynote address at last summer's Democratic National Convention, about being continually in the glare of the media.

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