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Barack Obama Has a Fund-Raising Dilemma

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Sometimes, strange situations arise on the campaign trail: Just ask Barack Obama.

The Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate was in New Hampshire recently and received a warning from a potential supporter:

"You can be it," [Maggie] North said at a small gathering at a Hanover restaurant Monday morning that drew eight people. "But you've got to stop -- excuse me for being blunt -- you've got to stop getting involved in the way people are fighting each other, chewing you up a little more."

To this warning from a caring supporter, Obama responded lamely, "That's what you do when you run for president." ...

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