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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Full prepared remarks for President Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech include comments standing up for gay citizens and other minorities often scapegoated for America’s problems:
“…[W]e don’t think that government is the source of all our problems — any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we’re told to blame for our troubles.”
Matt Comer previously served as editor from October 2007 through August 2015 and as a staff writer afterward in 2016. More by Matt Comer
