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Barack Obama: “We're going to give them another chance to spend more time worrying about your jobs than keeping theirs.”

On the recordOctober 14, 2011
We're going to give them another chance to spend more time worrying about your jobs than keeping theirs.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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