Obama seeks to tackle doubters

Brendhan from Florida is not happy with Barack Obama. “What the heck is going on?” he asks the senator in a blog entry on the official web portal of the Democratic presidential campaign. “I keep having to endure one disappointment after another . . . When are you going to stand up and [show] some spine again?” A month after Mr Obama sealed the Democratic nomination, his army of online supporters is showing signs of division. Bloggers have inundated the portal – my.barackobama.com – with protests about his shift to the centre. Within days of its creation last month, a group appealing for Mr Obama to reconsider his support for a compromise deal over controversial domestic surveillance legislation had become the most popular community on his website. The rebellion highlights the balancing act facing Mr Obama as he attempts to... [read full story]