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Barack Obama: “What we've said is, especially for these young people, why wouldn't we want to embrace them?”

On the recordApril 19, 2011
What we've said is, especially for these young people, why wouldn't we want to embrace them?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Facebook Town Hall Meeting and a Question-and-Answer Session in Palo Alto

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