So sure, the recent spate of articles about Obama's "refinement" of his Iraq pull-out plan is a sign that today's journalists are hardly any better at political coverage than they were in 2004. If it's a slow news day, some phony scandal must be puffed up to fill all that airtime and column space. But Obama's very real flip-flop on the FISA bill opened the door to this whole meme.
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Interesting--thanks for the comment. The FISA issue to me is not grounds for abandoning Obama. But it is important for more progressive Democrats to maintain pressure on him, pushing him further left than he might otherwise choose. This pressure will need to continue not only through the 2008 campaign, but throughout the Obama presidency. On most issues, it won't be a matter of him "flip-flopping" or "moving to the center"; rather, it's that he's just never been that much of a progressive.
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