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CBS Release on Obama Interview

BARACK OBAMA SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER THAT HE MADE WITH HIS DYING MOTHER -

IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ON "THE EARLY SHOW" ON OCT. 23 ON CBS

EARLY SHOW co-anchor Harry Smith conducted an exclusive interview with Sen. Barack Obama earlier today (22) in Richmond, Va. Among other topics, the senator told Smith why it's so important for him to take a break from his campaign to see his grandmother. "My grandmother's the last one left," Obama told Smith. The senator added, "She has really been the rock of the family, the foundation of the family." Obama didn't get to his mother before she died. "Yeah, got there too late," he says. "You know, I mean, it was sort of like this, in the sense that she had a terminal illness. We knew she wasn't doing well, but you know, the diagnosis was such that we thought we had a little more time and we didn't. And so I want to make sure that I don't make the same mistake twice."

http://thepage.time.com/cbs-release-on-obama-interview/