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Barack Obama: “I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they've been using against me, before I even took office... what that…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2009
I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they've been using against me, before I even took office... what that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the rhetoric used by al Qaeda and asserts that their ideas are failing.

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