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Barack Obama: I don't see why they would throw the game, except for all those Secret Service guys with guns around them.

On the recordMarch 19, 2009
I don't see why they would throw the game, except for all those Secret Service guys with guns around them.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama humorously comments on the presence of Secret Service during a basketball game.

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