A fellow Illinois state Senator says Obama made the threat -- or something sounding like it -- during a tense exchange in the Legislature.
The lawmaker says a third person had to phyiscally intervene to separate them.
Ryan Lizza's 15,000-word New Yorker opus also includes Obama's initial response to Sept. 11.
"The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers...." Read more here.
