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Barack Obama: We don't have to choose between allowing our financial system to collapse and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to…

On the recordOctober 28, 2008
We don't have to choose between allowing our financial system to collapse and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street banks.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Raleigh

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