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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shakes hands with supporters at a town hall-style meeting in Powder Springs, Ga., Tuesday, July 8, 2008. POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. -- Asked by a voter about accusations of flip-flopping, Democrat Barack Obama dismissed the notion Tuesday that he has been shifting stances on Iraq, guns and the death penalty to break with his party's liberal wing and court a wider swath of voters. "The people who say this haven't apparently been listening to me," the likely Democratic presidential nominee said in response to a question at a town-hall style event. Obama blamed criticism from "my friends on the left" and "some of the media" in part on cynicism that ascribes political motives for every move candidates make. "You're not going to agree with me on 100 percent of what I... [read full story]
