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Is Obama Becoming Hillary Clinton?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Besides voting for the authorization for invading Iraq and never apologizing for doing so, the main reason many lefties voted against Hillary ob:

Clinton is that she seems willing to say and doing anything to win. Is Obama starting down this duplicitous path. He certainly seems to be moving to the center regarding gun control, NAFTA, campaign finance, FISA warrants, and the death penalty for certain kinds of child rape. What else? No doubt, the system is designed to encourage even force candidates to move to the center. But if Obama figures that his lefty base has no place to go, he's making a mistake. Why? Because staying home on election day or voting for a third party candidate is not out of the question for some lefties. Enough to hurt him? Who knows? Obama should not risk finding out. Some reciprocity is warranted here. Lefties should be willing to give Obama some latitude just so long as his engagement with center values is principled and not too often.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).