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Barack Obama: “Jobs are critically important, not just as a political tool.”

On the recordMay 12, 2010
Jobs are critically important, not just as a political tool.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

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