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"Please Get Our Family Out"

Carol Platt Liebau | May 02, 2012 7:57 PM

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is pleading for help from President Obama after learning that his wife was bound and beaten by Chinese authorities after he defected.

Will Chen be thrown under the bus as part of another effort by the Obama campaign to point to a "foreign relations success" in striking a "deal" with the Chinese?