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Barack Obama: We can choose hope over fear, unity over division; the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

On the recordOctober 31, 2008
We can choose hope over fear, unity over division; the promise of change over the power of the status quo.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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