Obama must win back progressives' trust

Backing away from the "public option" for health insurance has unleashed a backlash from the left that has been building for months.

there's a growing sense among progressives that they have, as my colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked. And that's why the mixed signals on the public option created such an uproar.

Now, politics is the art of the possible. Obama was never going to get everything his supporters wanted.

But there's a point at which realism shades over into weakness, and progressives increasingly feel that the administration is on the wrong side of ... Full Story »

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by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 22, 2009

THIS IS A DUPLICATE OF A NYTIMES OP-ED "OBAMA'S TRUST PROBLEM"

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