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If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

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Jon Stewart
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
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