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During the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference on Wednesday at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, a packed house of Wall Street's finest with BlackBerries ready eagerly awaited Carl Icahn's next hot stock tip or a big update about his Yahoo! Inc. proxy fight. What they did not expect was for the billionaire investor to use his 15 minute speech to discuss politics, using the forum to vent his not-so-kind views on Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. ...