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Whacko lefty Feingold makes strong demand on Obama (and then walks back from it rather spinelessly): "BILL MOYERS: I had dinner the other night with Ted Sorensen, who … was John F. Kennedy’s alter ego, soul mate, the author of so many, with Kennedy, of those great speeches. And I said to him, "Ted, you know, the one thing people remember from Kennedy’s inaugural address was … ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.’" And I said, "What’s the one thing that you think Barack Obama could say that would be the most memorable, the most riveting, and the most compelling, and the most urgent? And he said, echoing Russ Feingold, "Restore the rule of law." You’ve been talking about this for some time now. Why is that so important for Obama to put it on the marquee early on? SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, of course, the new president, minutes after he’s sworn in, in this wonderful moment … included in the speech, I would hope, would be some attempt by this new, wonderful president to renounce the extreme claims of executive power. To simply renounce these claims that were made by the Bush administration. If he does not say it in some way, at least there, or soon thereafter-"
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