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Just a Couple of Brothas?

by David Kurtz
05.11.09 | 7:16 am

At the White House correspondents dinner over the weekend, Obama gave RNC Chair Michael Steele a gentle jab — or, as Steele described it, “It was good love between two brothers.”

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