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Barack Obama: “We can only do it if we have the courage to change, if we can bring the country together.”

On the recordDecember 12, 2007
We can only do it if we have the courage to change, if we can bring the country together.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama speaks about the need for courage and unity to bring about change.

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