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Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public

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  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:06 PM

    It was a speech

    Just a speech. Perhaps you should stop considering it in the same light as the sum total of all human wisdom. And please, I understand he travels on a beam of light, shatters the barriers of time and space, parts the waters, feeds the hungry and raises the dead, but someone wrote that for him while he was busy campaigning for elected office. And the office isn't the Papacy.

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