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"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
"My husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June."
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."
John McCain "said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president."
Recent stories from Stephanie Garry
The Guard is strained, but so are Obama's factsSen. Barack Obama used this summer's Midwest flooding to illustrate his point that the Guard and Reserves are overtaxed. Good point, bad example.
Clinton's calendar miscalculationHistory is not on Sen. Hillary Clinton's side with references to '92, '68 elections.
Stephanie Garry is a staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times.
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