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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, Now I'm being treated unfairly.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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