He told you so. President-elect Barack Obama said he would reach across divides to find common ground on hot-button issues and governance.

Obama, who many on the progressive left apparently thought would do to the conservative right what Bush, Cheney and Rove did to the liberal left, instead is inviting people of various leanings into his administration for everything from inaugural events to Cabinet appointments.

There has been plenty of grumbling on the left about some of Obama’s high-level picks, but it is his invitation to evangelical preacher Rick Warren to pray th...

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