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Obama’s First Weekly Address Posted On YouTube

A weekly radio address has been a presidential tradition for decades in the United States. Today, President-elect Barack Obama delivered his first address and posted it on YouTube. This is the text of President-elect Obama’s first weekly address: Today, the leaders of the G-20 countries — a group that includes the world’s largest economies — are gathering in Washington to seek solutions to the ongoing turmoil in our financial markets. I’m glad President Bush has initiated this process — because our global economic crisis requires a coordinated global response. And yet, as we act in concert with other nations, we must also act immediately here at home to address America’s own economic crisis. This week, amid continued volatility in our markets, we learned that unemployment insurance claims rose to their highest levels since September 11, 2001. We’ve lost jobs for ten straight months — nearly 1.2 million jobs this year,…

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