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Obama Sits Down With Dan Rather

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Illinois Senator tells the veteran reporter while on his 6-day Pennsylvania bus tour that sometimes the campaign life is grueling:

“There's no doubt that sometimes this is a grind...every time I start feeling sorry for myself, I'm reminded of the troops who are on 15-month rotations in Baghdad. What I'm going through is nothing like what they're going through.”

Full interview to air April 15 at 8 pm ET on HDNET.

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