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Barack Obama: There are ways of channeling your concerns constructively, and there are ways of channeling your concerns destructively.

On the recordNovember 23, 2014
There are ways of channeling your concerns constructively, and there are ways of channeling your concerns destructively.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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