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Lefties Livid Over Obama's Right Moves

Posted Jun 24, 08 2:28 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama’s general-election shift to the center is in full effect on issues from spy powers to taxes, and the liberal left is getting a little steamed, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Democrat's support for cutting corporate taxes, an undivided Israeli Jerusalem and—perhaps most importantly to left activists—the domestic spy-bill compromise have introduced "an element of distrust," one says.

The left now has "a strong reason not to trust him or give him the benefit of the doubt," one blogger says of the man who won the primaries by running to the left of his opponent. But few insiders are surprised at the shift on Iraq (a slower drawdown) and Iran (no automatic meeting). Said one, “He can’t win if the center isn’t comfortable.”

Sources Wall Street Journal, The Hill

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gets out of the car as he boards the campaign charter plane in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, June 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gets off the campaign charter plane in Las Vegas, Monday, June 23, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speaks at the US Conference of Mayors in Miami on June 21, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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