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Barack Obama: The question we have to answer, though, is: Where do we want to go?

On the recordJuly 21, 2011
The question we have to answer, though, is: Where do we want to go?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Town Hall Meeting and a Question-and-Answer Session in College Park

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