Now, here's what we're going to do, is we're going to just -- whoever has a question, raise their hand.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall in New Orleans

But while we have survived foreign challenges in the past, even after the stumbling beginnings typical of democracies, those we face today are of a new and possibly more dangerous kind and raise a question as to whether the United States of 2008 still has the right stuff.

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