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Barack Obama: It doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your last name is, who you love.

On the recordNovember 24, 2013
It doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your last name is, who you love.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Fundraiser in Beverly...

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