Spinning Gold Into Straw

By David Kurtz

December 10, 2008 8:31 a.m.

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Republicans are demanding, somewhat self-servedly, that Obama affirmatively state that he’ll keep Patrick Fitzgerald on as U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois. Turns out Obama has already said as much.

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