1. Susan Davis, "Obama Tilts Toward Center," Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2008; Michael Powell, "For Obama, a Pragmatist's Shift Toward the Center," New York Times, June 27, 2008; Janet Hook, "Obama Moving Toward Center: Democrat Edging Away From Left on Some Issues in Effort to Woo Independent Voters," Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2008.
2. The Hamilton Group is a leading "conservative" (business-friendly) economic think tank. Furman, 37, is linked closely to Robert Rubin, the top Wall Street financial mogul and former Clinton economics advisor and Treasury secretary. Rubin's regressive views on behalf of "free trade" (including the North American Free Trade Agreement, investor's rights, wages, welfare and "deficit reduction" gave the Clinton administration "credibility" in the halls of corporate and financial power.
3. Sara Baxter, "Barack Obama May Recruit Defence Chief Robert Gates," London Sunday Times, June 29, 2008. read at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_
elections/article4232070.ece
4. Barack Obama, "A Way Forward in Iraq," Speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago Illinois (November 20, 2006), available online at http://obama.senate.gov/speech/061120-a_way_forward _in_iraq/index.html ; Barack Obama, "Renewing American Leadership," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2007), read online at www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html ; Barack Obama, "Moving Forward in Iraq," Speech to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, November 22, 2005, read at http://obama.senate.gov/speech/051122-moving_forward/ ; Lance Selfa, "The New Face of U.S. Politics," International Socialist Review (March-April 2007); Stephen Zunes, "Barack Obama on the Middle East," Foreign Policy in Focus (January 10 2008), read at www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4886 ; Juan Gonzales, Amy Goodman, and Jeremy Scahill. "Jeremy Scahill: Despite Antiwar Rhetoric, Clinton-Obama Plans Would Keep US Mercenaries, Troops in Iraq for Years to Come," Democracy Now (February 28, 2008) read text version at www.democracynow.org/2008/2/28/jeremy_scahill_despite_anti_war_rhetoric ;
Jeremy Scahill, "Obama's Mercenary Position," The Nation (March 16, 2008); Robert Kagan, "Obama the Interventionist," Washington Post, 29 April, 2007, p. B7; Paul Street, "Obama's Audacious Deference to Power," ZNet Magazine (January 24, 2007), read at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936 ; Paul Street, "The Audacity of Deception: Barack Obama and the Manufacture of Progressive Illusion," Black Agenda Report (December 12, 2007), read at http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=463&Itemid=1 ; Paul Street, "Obama's Good and ‘Proper' War," ZNet (March 5, 2008), read at http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16760 .
5. Lance Selfa, "Obama's Circle of Hawks," Socialist Worker (June 18, 2008), read at http://socialistworker.org/2008/06/18/obama-circle-of-hawks .
6. John Pilger, "In the Great Tradition, Obama is a Hawk," ZNet Sustainer Commentary (June 15, 2008), read at http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3524 .
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