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2024-12-02 11:17:25 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C7F51EBB6BDF78AA104859065D01EEE6821224B3567F0F73DB2B25DE11D2DD59
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Obama never literally said this, nor did he write it as a yearbook quote, as the post implies. Instead, the quote is a misleading mash-up of a line in a paper titled “Race and Rights Rhetoric,” which Obama co-wrote with his law school classmate Robert Fisher in April 1991. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-181030204951 https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-obama-misquoted-as-saying-the-american-dream-is-to-be-donald-trump-idUSKBN23G26N/
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