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This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Obama calls caring for our children our first task and first job. If we fail at that, he says, we fail at everything. It's the ultimate measure by which a society is judged, in his words.
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