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Barack Obama on free speech.
By New Statesman Published 26 September 2012 7:21
Barack Obama addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City. Photograph: Getty Images.
As President of our country, and Commander-in-Chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
Barack Obama defends free speech in his address to the UN General Assembly.
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4 comments
I don't care that he offers free speech, he actually shoud be paying us to hear him! ;-)
Always Barack Obama rocks awful things every day.
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As long as the awful things do not involve anything that angers his master Bibi or the Zionist lobby in any shape or form.
As long as the awful things do not involve anything that angers his master Bibi or the Israeli lobby in any shape or form.