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# Barack Obama bullied over his name and big ears
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## President Barack Obama told a White House conference on school bullying
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that he, too, was a victim of childhood taunting.
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8:55PM GMT 10 Mar 2011
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"I have to say that with big ears and the name that I have, I was not immune.
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I did not emerge unscathed," Obama said.
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The President said that adults have often assumed that bullying was a fairly
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benign childhood rite of passage but, in truth, the destructive psychological
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effects of bullying can linger into adulthood.
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He said: "Sometimes we overlook the real damage that bullying can do,
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especially when young people face harassment day after day, week after week."
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In the past few years, a number of teenage children in the United States have
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committed suicide following prolonged bullying. Obama reminded the White House
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conference that bullying is no longer limited to schools, but may extend to
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aggressive texting of a child's mobile phone or home computer.
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[91]: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/
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[92]: http://3276.e-printphoto.co.uk/dailytelegraph/
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[94]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/apps/
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[95]: http://dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
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[96]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/promotions/
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[97]: http://subscriber.telegraph.co.uk/loyalty/
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[98]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/syndication-services/
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[99]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/termsandconditions
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[100]: /archive/2011-5-28.html
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[101]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/
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[102]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us/style-book/
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[103]: /topics/weather/4142730/Weather-forecast.html
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