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Honeymoon: Left Cuts Obama Slack

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama boasted of opposing the Iraq War from the start.

But as president-elect, he has come to the rescue of surge supporter Joe Lieberman and flirted with the idea of keeping on Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates - and now he seems poised to nominate war-authorizing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to serve as his secretary of state.

The sound from the left: not silence, but no howls of betrayal, either.

"Anybody who has reacted after two weeks is not a serious person," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).