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Barack Obama: “For them, somehow, to suggest that we are interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't…”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2008
For them, somehow, to suggest that we are interjecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't commented on is pretty hard to figure out.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Barack Obama responds to accusations from the Clinton campaign about race being injected into the campaign.

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