It's all tactics, and it's not solving problems.

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It's a status quo that extends beyond any particular party and right now that status quo is fighting back with everything it's got, with the same old tactics that divide and distract us from solving the problems people face, whether those problems are health care that folks can't afford or a mortgage they cannot pay.

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But it does give everyone trying to come up with real solutions to the obesity problems in the U.S. a chance to stop and reconsider their tactics.

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