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Barack Obama: “It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington - the culmination of decades of decisions that were made or…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2008
It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington - the culmination of decades of decisions that were made or put off without regard to the realities of a global economy and the growing inequality it's produced.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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