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bigtree

(85,998 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 08:52 AM Jul 2012

President Obama: “What you taught me in 2008"



“What you taught me in 2008 is that when regular folk, when working people, when all of you tap into that basic decency and goodness of the American people, when you focus on what’s true and what’s right, and you cut through all the nonsense and all the noise and all the spin, and you remember your families and your parents and your grandparents and everything they did to give you the opportunities that you had, then you can’t be stopped.”


— President Obama in Virginia Beach, Virginia yesterday

full transcript of remarks by the President at campaign event at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, VA: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-virginia-beach-va

http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/27149906967/what-you-taught-me-in-2008-is-that-when-regular

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treestar

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2. K&R
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:58 AM
Jul 2012

I like the emphasis on family and society - gave you opportunities. You don't do it all on your own the way the Rs would like to pretend.

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