Why do some on the Left keep saying that Pres. Obama is "center-right"?

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23. Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Been Called a 'Moderate Republican' in Recent Decades

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-obama-would-have-been-called-moderate-republican-recent-decades

Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Been Called a ‘Moderate Republican’ in Recent Decades

The professor argues Dems function as moderate Republicans and the GOP so extreme you can barely call it a political party.

January 31, 2013

Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT, and one of the nation's leading intellectual critics of the US political, corporate and national security apparatus. In this long interview, Cenk Uygur of TYT and Professor Chomsky discuss President Obama, the rightward shift of US politics over the past few decades, drone strikes, the labor movement, Aaron Swartz, the role of the media and what hope we have for the future

In the interview, Chomsky argues that the country's political shift toward corporate and business interests in recent decades reflects a "realignment" of the economy.