2007-12-11 Liberal views could haunt Obama

2007-12-11 \Barack Obama\2008 US presidential race\culture war http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7312.html Liberal views could haunt Obama 2=&ldquo;When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was seeking state office a dozen years ago, he took unabashedly liberal positions: flatly opposed to capital punishment, in support of a federal single-payer health plan, against any restrictions on abortion, and in support of state laws to ban the manufacture, sale and even possession of handguns.&rdquo; Story progresses here.   