* His emphasis on how he's a supporter of "free trade," something that seems to contradict his campaign-trail criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
* His "tweaking" of his claim that he would meet with Iran's president (he is adding conditions)
* His embrace of Bush-McCain rhetoric on the supposed Iranian nuclear threat and his related promise to do "anything" to protect the military occupation, apartheid, and nuclear state of Israel from Iran (a nation previously attacked by Israel).
* His ridiculous call for an "undivided" Israel-run Jerusalem despite the fact that no government on the planet (and not even the Bush administration) supports Israeli's right to annex that UN-designated international city
* His latest weak statements on "combat troop" withdrawal from Iraq, indicating that an Obama White House would maintain the immoral and illegal U.S. occupation of that country for an indefinite period.
If the stories on Obama's "shift to the center" were re-written today (I am writing on Sunday, June 29th), they'd probably have to include news that Obama may well ask Robert Gates, the hard right George W. Bush's hawkish defense secretary, to stay on into an Obama administration [3].
There's an unmentionable problem with this "shift to the center" narrative. Obama was already positioned well to the corporate- and Empire-friendly "middle" well before all of these recent developments.
He was a defender of the death penalty during his career in the Illinois State Assembly (1997-2004).
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