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Article posted: 9/4/2012 10:54 AM

Obama’s re-election road: Hope and a hard climb

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President Barack Obama greets local residents as he tours the Bridgewood neighborhood in LaPlace, La., in the Saint John the Baptist Parish for the ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.

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People remember the hope and the history. For him or against him, they picture candidate Barack Obama as the one who stood on stage in a football stadium in Denver and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination by declaring "It's time for us to change America." Forgotten, it seems, is what Obama said when he actually won: "The road ahead will be long."