What we should be doing is talking about what we expect to do in order to lead the country down the long-term path of economic growth because families were having trouble even before this Wall Street crisis hit.
Barack Obama stresses the need for a long-term economic growth plan amidst the crisis.
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Those are all topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly, while we still insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people's right to say things that we profoundly disagree with.
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