Make or Break for Barack

It's make or break time for Barack Obama. Dem debate tonight, and has Obama shaded the truth on his New York resume, just as he did in Chicago? NY Times:

Some say he has taken some literary license in the telling of his story. Dan Armstrong, who worked with Mr. Obama at Business International Corporation in New York in 1984 and has deconstructed Mr. Obama’s account of the job on his blog, analyzethis.net, wrote: “All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks.”

In an interview, Mr. Armstrong added: “There may be some truth to that. But in order to make it a good story, it required a bit of exaggeration.”

Employees at the small firm called it "high school with ashtrays".

RCP Blog on what's at stake in the Dem debate tonight, and latest polling in Iowa, which is the make or break state for Obama.

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