HuffPost: Off the Bus - Obama Interview

I didn't much care for her boilerplate been-asked-a-thousand-times questions, but a nice interview overall.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-davis/inside-baracks-entourage_b_68786.html

Inside Barack's Entourage - An OffTheBus Interview With Barack Obama

Posted October 17, 2007 | 09:42 AM (EST)


I've finally snagged a one-on-one interview with the political rock star of the 2008 cycle, Barack Obama, who while not number one in the polls has raised mo' money and exudes more Mojo than any other candidate on the trail and still sits in the top tier of the Democratic presidential candidate circle.

Don't ask how I did it. All I can say is that it's been a combination of persistence, patience, pleading (groveling? oh yeah) and a local press pass didn't hurt, either.

Still, this is the most tightly controlled press lockdown of any presidential campaign I've ever covered and I've been doing this since the 1980 election, mostly reporting on the ground from the first caucus state in the nation and my hometown, Des Moines, Iowa.

So far as I can recall, Senators Clinton and Obama have only deigned to give one press conference while campaigning in Iowa.

Their handlers prefer their candidates spend time (when not making fundraising calls) with actual voters where, just by chance, they can easily slip slide around tough questions from non-reporters and dole out the same pat answers, successfully avoiding the press dogging their every move and itching for clarity.
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edited for typo

thanks, i fixed it.