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Barack Obama: Our kids and our country can't afford four more years of neglect and indifference.

On the recordSeptember 8, 2008
Our kids and our country can't afford four more years of neglect and indifference.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Dayton

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