TAKING STOCKObama: pro and conhttp://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/11/leonard_kornacki_tax_deal[Andrew Leonard] I spent the better part of the last two years defending Obama's reasonable compromises, but the pattern has gotten too obvious to ignore. Obama starts in the middle and then gets pushed to the right. . . [read on]http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/12/11/