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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “So we need to address that issue, but we need to not take it out on Barack Obama, because it was not his fault.”

On the recordJuly 7, 2008
So we need to address that issue, but we need to not take it out on Barack Obama, because it was not his fault.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz discusses the need to address issues faced by Clinton supporters without blaming Obama.

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