Barack Obama is foolish and naive to sit for an interview for Larry King with no preconditions. His poor judgment in choosing to go on prime-time TV to talk with the biggest softball-lobbing journalist betrays a foolish naivete. With my years and years and years and years of experience, I have learned that when you are in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. By appearing with Larry King, I would be forced to answer possible questions about my poor judgment not only these past few days, but for the past few years. That represents an unacceptable risk to me, my candidacy and the United States of America.

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