David M. Shribman:

Is Barack Obama's duty to hear the voices of the entire country or is it to heed the entreaties of his allies on the left and in the Democratic Party? That is one of the simplest, and also one of the most complex, questions of our time. To ask it is to please conservatives who argue that Mr. Obama consistently ignores their impulses and ideas.

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