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Pick Me; I'm Perfect

Candidates' answers to the classic job-interview question "What's your biggest weakness?" in a Jan. 15 debate could have been uttered by The Office's Michael Scott.

HILLARY CLINTON: "I get frustrated when people don't seem to understand that we can do so much more to help."

JOHN EDWARDS: "I sometimes have a very powerful emotional response to pain that I see around me."

BARACK OBAMA: "I ask my staff never to hand me paper until two seconds before I'll need it because I will lose it."

"I work too hard. I care too much....

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