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Nation's moral failing

Provocative question from weekend's forum shows candidates' similarity

When presidential candidates agree, it seldom makes news. Sometimes it should. Appearing back-to-back Saturday in an unusual forum at Saddleback Church in California, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain were each asked to identify his - and the country's - greatest moral failure. Obama mentioned his teenage drug use, McCain his failed first marriage. It was when they turned to the nation's...

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