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McClatchy Newspapers, by Leonard Pitts, Jr. -- On Tuesday, Barack Obama will stand on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and take an oath making him the nation's first president of African heritage. The statue of Abraham Lincoln, which sits facing the Capitol in a temple two miles away, will not give two thumbs up. Actually, Lincoln likely would have been appalled. How could he not?

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