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There's A False Choice Being Put Forward By Some Democrats Now. Either We Double-down On Our Progressive Values, Or We Go Out There And Talk About The Middle Class And The Working Class. I've Never Found Them Inconsistent. They Go Together.

The Number One Job Facing The Middle Class. And It Happens To Be, As Barack Says, A Three-letter Word: Jobs. J-o-b-s.

But People Turn On Their Televisions. They Turn On Their Televisions And They See What's Happening In Iraq. The American People Are Not Stupid. And The One Thing They Understand, They Understand How Incredibly Mismanaged And Bungled This War Has Been By The Civilians In This Administration. And - I Mean, You Can't Paper Over That, Any More Than You Can Paper Over Katrina.

We [us Government] Have No Fundamental Disagreement With The Saudis - I Mean, Excuse Me, With The Iraqis Any More Than We Do With The Arab League, Which We Happen To Support The Position They're Taking.

The Caliphate Will Have Been Dismantled. It Will Still Be A Problem, But That Has Been Our Focus Because That Is The Greatest Existential Threat To U.s. Interests.