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Barack Obama is still the smartest person who stepped up for the job. His policies will never be as enlightened as Kucinich, but he will definitely move us in the right direction. Let's wait until he sets some bad policies before we jump all over him. Meanwhile, give him some room and air-space to grow into the job of trying to salvage both our nation and the ecosphere from thirty years of Republican-led ravaging.