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"Obama and Me"
(It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial)
By Todd SpivaK

"It's not quite eight in the morning, and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.

Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands.

It's the first time I've ever heard him yell, and I'm trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned.

This is before Obama Girl, before the Secret Service detail, before he becomes a best-selling author. His book, Dreams From My Father, has been out of print for years."

MUCH MUCH MORE - http://dallasobserver.com/2008-02-28/news/obama-and-me/1


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