Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on Obama’s permanent campaign.
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🗓️ 15 February 2013
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on Obama's permanent campaign.
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| 1:14.2 | politics. It's Thursday, February 14th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the |
| 1:19.1 | New Yorker. In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama tried to shame |
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