# 2009-08-08 President Obama's Weekly Address

President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "The Necessity of Health Reform and Absurdity of the Attacks'" from August 8, 2009. Original description of the speech: "The President calls health insurance reform critical to United States' long-term economic strength and dispelled the outlandish rumors being promoted by those who are defending the status quo."

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: The White House
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-08-08_President_Obama%27s_Weekly_Address.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The White House
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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