NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams interviewed Barack Obama on June 4, 2008. Obama talked about a wide range of issues, including his assessment of GOP political strategies in the general election; Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and the role he envisions they will play in his general election campaign; the now famous Obama fist bump, or dap. In talking about how the campaign had affected his daughters, he said his nine-year-old understood the concepts of “superdelegates” and “presumed nominee.”

The important thing, Obama said, is to find the best way to build a united Democratic fall campaign to answer what he expects to be a Republican assault on his devotion to America — “the attempt to paint me as a very risky choice.”

Obama said he was bracing for Republican attacks not only on “national security but partly around cultural issues.”

Obama, 46, the first black candidate ever nominated by a major party for president, characterized the likely Republican message as: “You know, he’s got a funny name. And we don’t know where he’s coming from. And, you know, he may be not sufficiently patriotic.

“I think that’s going to be the race they run.”

Source: Obama expects GOP to attack his patriotism

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