Veteran Chicago reporter Lynn Sweet published her comprehensive Obama story in today's edition:
http://www.suntimes.com/...
The whole article is worth reading, but Kossacks will be especially interested in two passages....
He also is angering some progressives for taking sides in the Illinois Democratic primary for the seat being vacated by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), promoting wounded Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth over Christine Cegelis, who won the nomination in 2004. As word was going around that he was backing Duckworth, Obama called Cegelis to give her the news personally.
"It sure seems like Obama is thumbing his nose at the kind of grassroots progressives who were the heart, soul and muscle of his own Senate campaign when he started out," blogged Jim Ginsburg, a Chicago Democratic activist who is the son of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Obama got beaten up in the blogosphere in September for defending Democratic colleagues Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Patrick Leahy of Vermont for voting to confirm John Roberts as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Obama confronted these critics in a posting on the Daily Kos, an influential Web site for progressives, offering this comfort: "I am not arguing that the Democrats should trim their sails and be more 'centrist.' "
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Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a Chicago native, says Obama "has not been the kind of strong leader people expected," with the caveat that he is a freshman. "To me, the jury is still out."
Unlike Steno Sue and Mrs. Orkent er Howell, GOOD reporters are very interested in what the blogoshere has to say. I have to go out now, so I won't be able to respond to comments, but I will be interested in reading people's thoughts on all this.