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Barack Obama: “I don't mind having policy debates with Senator Clinton or Senator Edwards. But what I don't enjoy is spending the week…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2008
I don't mind having policy debates with Senator Clinton or Senator Edwards. But what I don't enjoy is spending the week or two weeks or the last month having to answer to these kinds of criticisms that are not factually accurate.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Barack Obama expresses his frustration with having to address inaccurate criticisms instead of focusing on policy debates.

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