Could Obama Be Pulled Leftward as President?

Courtesy Donklephant  Wed, 07/09/2008 - 1:26pm

Dick Morris has an interesting column pointing out that Barack Obama’s center-ward drift could mean very little once he has to work with a liberal Democratic Congress.

Morris reminds us that the two most liberal (and ineffective) years of the Bill Clinton presidency were his first two when a Democratic-controlled Congress forced him to pursue a liberal agenda instead of the centrist one on which he ran for president.

Morris makes a good point and he could end...


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