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all right people we've got a new speech to read a political hot air as always

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and we're gonna just dive right in as we kind of skim President Barack Obama's [hot air balloon rising]

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second inaugural address from 2013 any legal regards your skin.i monthly what's [text on screen]

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keeping here it's always good idea the beginning of a series of questions on

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paragraphs like this that you just take a little bit of skimming time and you [man writing]

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look for keywords circle if you scratch your head a little bit look for more

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keywords and then only see some fancy five dollar words there that well you [text on screen]

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hope you know what they mean and then you come the last sentence that you

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actually read that is what will give real meaning to our Creed okay well

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that's it here we go what is the most likely reason the president says the

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truths referred to in the Declaration of Independence are not self-executing

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correct answer it's B come on people that's you knew that contend that we

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need to find new solutions for problems that founding fathers never took into [politicians meeting]

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account alright well this part of the passage finds Obama at his most eloquent

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perhaps one of the main ideas in the speech is that America must update its [Obama at the White House]

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government to stay true to the founding principles Obama goes on to say that

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it's up to every generation to reinvent itself in the image presented in the

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declaration although he mentions a deity in the speech while this part of the [Jesus]

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passage is not about religious freedom so nixing see there it's about the

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truths referred to in the Declaration of Independence the Equality of people and

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their right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that was actually a [Statue of Liberty]

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thing back then people didn't necessarily have that right not kidding

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well these rights are inalienable nothing to do with Mars meaning you have [man on the moon]

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them you can't take them away according to the declaration that is so there's no

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reason to think Obama sees a limit to them they're limitless they're awesome [moon orbiting the earth]

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he says they must be fought for you have to defend what you care about right the [people on strike]

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sentence is following the excerpt in question do suggest that well money may

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lead to greater rights for the few like somehow that's bad but Obama believes [money]

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this circumstance can be avoided with effort and determination

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so yeah the answer is B and that's a contend that we need to find new [text on screen]

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solutions for problems founding fathers never took into account yeah we're up

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there with bad cell phone conic and I don't know what is Bitcoin all [girl looking for reception in the wild]

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about anyway you don't have any ideas

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