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Michelle Obama: “Barack [Obama] was standing up for marriage equality.”

Featuring: Michelle Obama, Democratic | Former First Lady of the United States | National

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Michelle Obama speaks at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 00:48

Y' all not done so much to say you were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin Laden rate, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize, Keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, Barack [Obama] was standing up for marriage equality. listening to science and comforting an entire nation in the face of unspeakable tragedies. And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park. (00:48–08:09)

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Asserts that Barack Obama supported marriage equality.

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