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America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try
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On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.
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So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.
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And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
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We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.
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My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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