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Barack Obama: “The decisions we make in November and over the next few years will shape a generation, if not a century.”

On the recordJune 8, 2008
The decisions we make in November and over the next few years will shape a generation, if not a century.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Raleigh

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