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Keeping The Focus On Jobs?

by David Kurtz
07.17.12 | 8:08 am

John Sununu in his usual form this morning, going on Fox to say that President Obama “spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something” and separately telling reporters, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”

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