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[draft_mario_cuomo]

You summed up basically everything I was going to say. I would like to add one other point. We are told Obama has a magic ability to convince people of things, to bring people together of all stripes. After all, this is the man running on the theme of "unity"--the man who will unite America for the first time in 200+ years. Surely someone with the gifts of Mr. Obama could have had an impact on Kerry-Feingold had he used the talents we are so often told about... It is a shame that Obama has never led on ending the war in the senate. The only time he did anything was when he began running for president in 2007, and even that was a token bill identical to Hillary's plan.