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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2008

McCain actually showed some courage, and he said, you know what? This is irresponsible. He said, I can't support a tax cut with -- and I quote -- 'so many of the benefits going to the most fortunate.'

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2008

McCain actually showed some courage when he said, 'You know what? This is irresponsible.' He said, 'I can't support a tax cut with' -- and I quote -- 'so many of the benefits going to the most fortunate.'

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2008

John McCain and Hillary Clinton voted for a war in Iraq that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, a war that is costing us thousands of precious lives and billions of dollars a week that could have been used…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2008

I will not sign another trade agreement unless it has protections for our environment and protections for American workers.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2008

It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington - the culmination of decades of decisions that were made or put off without regard to the realities of a global economy and the growing inequality it's produced.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

We can't keep spending money that we don't have in a war that we shouldn't have fought.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

He needs us to restore fairness to our economy by putting tax cuts into the pockets of working people and seniors and struggling homeowners.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job in Afghanistan. And put more resources into the fight against Bin Laden. Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Baghdad, we could have put…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

We have given young people a reason to believe, and we have brought -- and we have brought the young at heart back to the polls who want to believe again.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

She needs us to finally come together to make health care affordable and available for every single American.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

We call it the American dream, because it's a dream we have for ourselves and our own families, but it's a dream we have for everybody.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

As President, I will work closely with the Puerto Rican government, its civil society, and with Congress to create a genuine and transparent process of self-determination that will be true to the best traditions of democracy.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2008

As President, I will actively engage Congress and the Puerto Rican people in promoting this deliberative, open and unbiased process...

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