Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has excited many with the notion that he is a new, transcendent type of politician. But he is giving the GOP effort ammunition and endangering his "Change We Can Believe In" motto with several shifts to the center, most recently on the Iraq war, his campaign's defining issue.
Stephen Caliendo, associate professor of political science at North Central College is a regular contributor on politics for our morning news. He is also co-director of The Project on Race in Political Communication, which seeks to provide information, through research, about the way race and politics interact with language. You can learn more about the project at RaceProject.org.
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