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Dear Friends,

For weeks now, I’ve been trying to imagine what I can say.

Anyone who has talked to me (or even walked past me) knows my preference. Barack Obama is a politician who can unify our nation by ending our current addiction to polarization; he will not exclude our Republican friends and neighbors from the table. Can you imagine an Obama administration with Richard Lugar as Secretary of State? I’m so ready to put the bitterness behind us and get busy. The America that I believe in does not shy from any challenge. Heroism and peacemaking and innovation belong to all of us.

Let me just say two more things:

1. If you’ve been wondering what you can do for me, on birthdays and Christmas, for the rest of my life, this is it.

2. If you will decide, right now, to vote for Senator Obama, I will put you in the acknowledgements page of my next book. No kidding. This offer does not extend to those who have already been Obama supporters for months or years. Those folks only get my undying gratitude.

My own heart is so full right now. This is the vote we get to tell our grandchildren about. I am so proud of us all. My prayers, almost all of them, are here in Indiana for the next two days.

Love,

Dan Barden

Footnote: only one voter took me up on the acknowledgements promise, but he was a Republican and I will be proud to pay my debt to him.

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