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Barack Obama: This place can make the future better, not just for these individuals but for America.

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
This place can make the future better, not just for these individuals but for America.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Macomb Community College in Warren

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