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Barack Obama: I don't like mixing metaphors, let's start that over.

On the recordSeptember 26, 2010
I don't like mixing metaphors, let's start that over.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Excerpts of Interview with Peter Baker of the New York Times

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