Obama sticks up for gays, immigrants in speech
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PageOneQ Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), during a recent speech in Houston, Texas, acknowledged the tactic of gays being used to divide citizens against one another for political ends. "I know how easy it is for politicians to turn us on each other," says the Senator, "to use immigrants or gay people or folks who aren't like us as scapegoats for what they do." A clip of the speech is available to view below, as broadcast on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on February 19, 2008.
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Originally published on Wednesday February 20, 2008.