What you claim Obama has accomplished and what is happening here in the real world (middle class America) are very different.

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"I won't forget that there are a lot of good common-sense answers to problems right out here in the real world, because common sense is not all that common up in Washington, " he said.

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What are his basic habits of mind that remain so pointedly relevant to the zeitgeist here on Earth, in the real world?

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It was my baptism into the real world of finance, and it was here in the Goldman Sachs trading rooms at 20 Broad Street and then 55 Broad Street that I was trained to become the financial journalist I am today.

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What we are looking at here is not what theory says ought to happen: this is what actually does happen out in the real world.

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