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Democratic disunity on display at Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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WASHINGTON–I spent Saturday at the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws meeting here. I blogged but never wrote a full story because I turned instead to the breaking news that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was quitting his Trinity United Church of Christ. For a full account of the day, read the report from Time Magazine’s Jay Newton-Small.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1810987,00.htm

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