Barack Obama on the Burden of the Political Spotlight

NPR | By Ed Gordon

Published February 8, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

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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