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U.S. presidents have certainly had their share of daddy issues, from John F. Kennedy trying to escape the shadow of the patriarch who enabled his rise to George W. Bush trying to measure up to his father's legacy. This year's election pits an incumbent who has made Barack Obama Sr.'s story part of his own public narrative against a challenger trying to outdo his father's failed 1968 campaign. Looking around the world, it shouldn't be a surprise that many of the world's most powerful leaders are either carrying on a father's legacy -- or trying to escape it.
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