Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 11:44 AM Pacific

Obama battles back...and at least one reporter gets it

NYT's Michael Powell reports that Barack Obama is fighting back against the McCain meme transcribed by the press corps in recent days:

POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Barack Obama had heard quite enough of the complaints that he is pirouetting, leaping, lurching even, toward the political center.

He is at heart, he told a crowd in suburban Atlanta, a pretty progressive guy who just happens to pack along a complicated world view.

The real stunner in this article was that Powell actually seemed to get it. It's not that it was a puff piece -- he pointed out that Obama has maneuvered around a bit on the second amendment, for example -- but Powell also made it clear that the Iraq frenzy was deeply flawed.

...he has wavered very little from the stance he took many months ago. He favors a phased-in 16-month withdrawal. The McCain campaign has labored hard to suggest that he is inconsistent on this issue.

That's what fair reporting looks like.

Obama battles back...and at least one reporter gets it

NYT's Michael Powell reports that Barack Obama is fighting back against the McCain meme transcribed by the press corps in recent days:

POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Barack Obama had heard quite enough of the complaints that he is pirouetting, leaping, lurching even, toward the political center.

He is at heart, he told a crowd in suburban Atlanta, a pretty progressive guy who just happens to pack along a complicated world view.

The real stunner in this article was that Powell actually seemed to get it. It's not that it was a puff piece -- he pointed out that Obama has maneuvered around a bit on the second amendment, for example -- but Powell also made it clear that the Iraq frenzy was deeply flawed.

...he has wavered very little from the stance he took many months ago. He favors a phased-in 16-month withdrawal. The McCain campaign has labored hard to suggest that he is inconsistent on this issue.

That's what fair reporting looks like.

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