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Barack Obama sums it up in his memorable victory speech:

The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It’s not about rich versus poor; young versus old; and it is not about black versus white.

It’s about the past versus the future.

The networks have just called it, and it looks like a big win for Obama.

Surprisingly, he did pretty well with white voters with 24%. That’s much better than what the polls were showing last week. He also beat Clinton with younger white voters, who were clearly turned off by the Clinton tactics. He also did well with college-educated white voters.

We’ll see what the final numbers look like, but he has a chance still to make this a race.

Hilarious.

Here’s what Obama said in 2006:

When I spoke to folks at this rally I insisted that for those undocumented workers who hope some way to have a pathway to citizenship, they have to understand that citizenship involves a common language, a common faith in the country, common commitments and a common sense of purpose, fealty to a common flag. I think there are times in these marches were you have seen Mexican flags; there has been controversy around a Spanish national anthem. I think that is not helpful because it indicates that somehow the traditional pattern of immigrants assimilating to a broader American culture is not what these marchers are seeking. I think they have to seek that because that is the essence of this country – that in diversity we come together as one.

On the other hand, to those who are fearful of these immigrants, in some cases because they have come to represent a loss of control for the country and its borders, I would just say to them that we can’t have a country in which you have a servant class that is picking our lettuce or plucking our chickens or looking after our children or mowing our lawns but who never have the full rights and obligations of citizenship. That’s just not the kind of country that I want to have my children grow up in and my hope is that over the coming months we can come up with the kind of comprehensive, thoughtful legislation that I think the Senate bill reflects and we can have strong border security, we can have employers do the right thing by hiring those who are here legally in some fashion, but that we also provide all those families, children, elderly people and teenagers that I saw in that amazing march on Monday the opportunity to be full members of the American community.

He clearly supports requirments on illegals to learn English and demonstrate a commitment to this country. It’s interesting that he also criticized those demontrators waving Mexican flags.

The media is buying into the Clintons’ most recent attacks on Obama. TPM, as usual, takes a look at the actual facts.