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In Obama's New Message, Some Foes See Old LiberalismBy Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 26, 2008; Page A01 **SNIP** Despite being rated the most liberal senator in 2007 by the National Journal, Obama has sought to confound easy categorization. **SNIP** His strategists recognize that Democratic voters and the superdelegates who may end up deciding the hotly contested nomination are concerned about the electability of a candidate tagged with the "liberal" label that has fatally wounded nominees such as John F. Kerry, Michael S. Dukakis and Walter F. Mondale. **SNIP** "The frustration that the Clinton campaign has felt...

Barack Obama’s climb to the Democratic nomination was given a small boost this week by Hillary “Combat” Clinton’s encounter with the footage of her not-so-hostile fire Bosnian trip. But ahead lays a problem nearly as daunting as his 20-year association with the hate-monger Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Obama would be the most liberal man to run for president since George McGovern. (Actually, George McGovern isn’t so liberal anymore; he recently penned a column in the Wall Street Journal bemoaning our country’s lack of personal accountability and warning of the unintended consequences of government meddling in the economy. Really.) Obama’s greatest cheering...