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Obama's Centrism

posted by Christopher Hayes on 07/01/2008 @ 1:24pm

There's been a lot of rending of garments online about Obama's "move to the center" the last few weeks. I'm still gathering my thoughts on it all (ed.:bad blogger! just blog it, dude!), but in the meantime, I think this point/counterpoint over at The Pickle does a good job of laying out both sides of my internal debate.

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