For fans of both John Edwards and Abraham Lincoln -- and I just know

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there are more than just myself -- I invoke WHY LINCOLN MATTERS, by Mario Cuomo.

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Just days before the March 2004 New York Democratic presidential primary, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina became the latest -- though undoubtedly not the last -- White House aspirant to cite Lincoln.

Asked if he believed "god is on America's side" in President Bush's war on terrorism, Edwards recalled "a sonderful story about Abraham Lincoln during the middle of the Civil War, bringing in a group of leaders, and at the end of the meeting one of the leaders said, 'Mr. President, can we . . . please join in prayer that God is on our side?' And Abraham Lincoln's response was, 'I won't join you in that prayer, but I'll join you in a prayer that we're on God's side.'"
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For anyone who likes either Lincoln and/or Cuomo, WHY LINCOLN MATTERS is a peach of book.