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Barack Obama: “I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided…”

On the recordDecember 26, 2007
I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Des Moines

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