Is Obama A Liberal?

I don't know what he is anymore.

Though Nixon was ever an opportunist and never an ideologue. But he is definitely to the right of Nixon. Eisenhower, too.

Yet, I've actually had the pom-pom squad on here tell me Obama was wrong about his own self descriptions!

Some choose to queue up for more Kool-Aid. Not this cowboy. Not any more. And I had such high hopes in 2008.

i think he might, years from now, in his memoirs, say that he was always a liberal at heart and tried to be as liberal as he thought he could get away with.

however, in practice, he's a pragmatist who stays within the range of what he thinks the prevailing political climate is; as such, he has presided as a center-right president. due to the state of the media and of campaign finance, it's understandable that he might have concluded that he couldn't win or effectively preside as an outright liberal.

of course, one could certainly argue that what's in his heart hardly matters if he tells no one until well after he retires. so, i voted for "center-right".

hell NO

I considered myself a moderate, but in recent years what I thought was moderate is now considered Far Left Liberal.

Makes me quite a bit concerned about that by the way.

Depending on how I am now categorized, Obama could either be at the center, center right, or conservative.
Actually, strike the conservative part... Obama is not stupid, and I now equate conservative with stupid.

We've seen examples over and over.

.... he just plays one on TV.

But, yeah, he's pretty much center-right from a historical perspective. He reflects the right-ward movement of American politics in general. Our choices of late have been that, between far right and center right. I've always thought of myself as being pretty centrist, but the center has shoved so far right, they seem comfortable labeling me a screaming liberal. And there's no push back from the media in all this.

or maybe Canada.

It's un-American, though.

I don't buy the results of that poll for one moment. Pure troll-bait.

9 people think he is...........

Like most people, Obama is left of center on some issues and right of center on other issues.

It's simplistic to suppose that all politicians, or all people, can be placed on a continuum from Left to Right. That's like belief in the Great Chain of Being, a concept which, like belief in diabolical witchcraft, is evident in Shakespeare's MacBeth.


Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

Just as a single continuum is inadequate to describe the variety of animals, plants, minerals, etc., a single continuum is inadequate to describe the variety of political views.

"Center" in the USA isn't anything to brag about, since 35 to 40% of our population are mass media driven meme-bots, but competent is much better than meat puppet Reagan/Bush/Bush, or God forbid, McCain and Romney.