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If Sen. Barack Obama fails to win the White House in 2008, he may have fallback career as a cartoonist.

A doodle by the Illinois Democrat sold on eBay for $2,075 as part of a charity drive called the National Doodle Day -- far more than any of the other 50 celebrity drawings.

Rosemary Anderson, vice president of Neurofibromatosis Inc., a national advocacy group for sufferers of the genetic disorder, told the New York Times that activists from the group had given Obama a "doodle packet” earlier this year.

"He, bless his heart, agreed to draw a doodle for us,” Anderson told the Times.

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  Obama's picture was drawn while he was presiding over the Senate and shows Sens. Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein and Ted Kennedy.

The second-highest amount paid for a doodle was about $700, for a drawing by former "X-Files" star Gillian Anderson. Donald Trump came in third.

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