"So much of what we talk about, so much of what we say -- it's not true, people know it's not true, all the insiders understand that we're just game-playing, and in the meantime we've got these hugely serious problems, which are true."
-- Barack Obama, explaining, in an interview last night on "The Daily Show," why he thinks Americans are frustrated with politics.
Posted in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama
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