Barack Obama actually said...

The failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics... has stopped us from meeting these challenges.

Obama criticizing the state of American leadership and politics during his presidential announcement.

02/09/2007

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None of this would have been successful obviously without our extraordinary men and women in uniform.

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