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Barack Obama: “The financial crisis that states, businesses and families are facing didn't just spring up full-blown overnight.”

On the recordOctober 20, 2008
The financial crisis that states, businesses and families are facing didn't just spring up full-blown overnight.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Lake Worth

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