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Senator Barack Obama is getting polite applause at best when he tells the delegates at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Missouri, this week that in running for president, "I know I am running for commander in chief." And then he tries to convince this intensely skeptical audience that he's the right man for the job.

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