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2024-12-02 08:33:50 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E1F1809C5155CE20E3EF63E2A54C3FEA59459454BAA372AE0C6DB065F32D0618
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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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