All I did with this speech is replace John McCain’s name with Barack Obama’s name. Sadly, the criticism that Barack Obama sent McCain’s way now applies to him as well.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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It was Barack Obama who was the agent of change, speaking out against the coming war, asking Democrats like you to show some backbone. When it comes to change, Hillary Clinton, you’re a talker, not a doer. You can’t convince people that you’re a reformer who will stand up to the Republicans just by dropping the word “change” into your speeches in every other sentence.

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In a December 7, 2007 speech on the Senate Floor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse disclosed the content of previously classified opinions delivered by the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel:
For years under the Bush Administration, the Office of Legal Counsel within the Department of Justice has issued highly classified secret legal opinions related to surveillance. […]

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