Barack Obama remembers Tim Russert

Tim Russert dies, Barack Obama shares memories.
BARACK OBAMA: "I've known Tim Russert since I first spoke at the convention in 2004. He's somebody who, over time, I came to consider not only a journalist but a friend. There wasn't a better interviewer in TV, not a more thoughtful analyst of our politics, and he was also one of the finest men I knew. Somebody who cared about America, cared about the issues, cared about family. I am grief-stricken with the loss and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family. And I hope that, even though Tim is irrButeplaceable, that the standard that he set in his professional life and his family life are standards that we all carry with us in our own lives."
On a special edition of "Today," Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said yesterday that in an interview before he spoke at the party's 2004 convention, Russert "suddenly pulls out a quote from a Cleveland Plain Dealer article that I had completely forgotten about" and tripped him up. "And it showed me he had the best research on television, but we also talked football afterwards. . . . He was never mean-spirited about it. You know, he would hold you accountable, but you always had a sense that he was fair, that he wasn't trying to make himself more important in the process."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/14/AR20080614019...

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[Malcolmiix]

إبراهيم حجازي العجوز النتن،منشط في قناة سبور(دائرالظلام)هذآلنتن يعتبرنفسه رجل وإمرآته خيرمنه،لايعرف حتى النطق،يأكل الحروف لأنه كذاب،لايعرف ماذايقول،حمار يرتع في فضاء ال مبارك.

[honeymoonlady]

to HomoGeneyes, you are totally wrong and do not know at all what you are spouting. You are just another of the awful people who put idiotic comments on U tube and other sites

I have lived in the Washington DC area and was born here. Tim Russert was one of the nicest and most real to his roots people in his field.

So leave your foolish and untrue comments where they belong, in your misguided mind

Tim Russert, rest in peace.

[HomoGeneyes]

TIM was a MEDIA WHORE

TIMOTHEY RUSSERT shoudl be replaced with JACK CAFFERTY! TIM LEFT this COUNTRY in TURMOIL. TIM WILL BE MISSED MOST by the CORPORATE MEDIA LIARS!

[johlaejounson]

Rest In Peace, Tim