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Obama's centrist-sounding campaign speeches, inspiring perorations for compromise, unity and bipartisanship, have propelled him to his party's front ranks. He now runs close behind Clinton in some of the Democratic presidential-preference polls.

But his nonpartisan tone belies a far more liberal agenda on a wide range of domestic and national-security issues (he ran against the Iraq war in his 2004 campaign and looks to government as the answer to every ill that confronts us). In the broader scheme, both now head a field of Democratic presidential hopefuls who are pointedly and uniformly more liberal than the nation at large -- raising alarm bells elsewhere in the party.

Read the rest at http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DonaldLambro/2006/12/28/clinton_and_obama,_keepers_of_the_liberal_flame.