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

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31. Because, in so doing, they subtract "the Left" from his base, thusly forcing BO to the right, which

"proves" that they are correct in calling him "center right", which in turn further subtracts "the Left" from BO's base.

Though this rhetoric results in some reduction of PO's base on the left (i.e. DEMOCRATS who have always supported social and economic justice issues), it also increases other political bases, one of which would be a base for what calls itself "the Left", which in some cases is in fact the authentic Left, but, because the Left is a relatively new dimension of the political spectrum at this point in American politics, not all of the "new" base is the authentic Left, especially since certain issues, such as the cannabis movement and peace, are distributed across a wider portion of the political spectrum from Left to Right and, thus, also redefining some of the Right end of the spectrum is also underway because of pressures created by the Tea Party playing into the Libertarian hand.

And btw, President Obama is NOT "center right", he is Center, but because the whole spectrum is skewed to the Right, due to corruption in our political systems that has resulted in weakness on the authentic Left, the Center which PO occupies, while I wouldn't say it is a Center in the middle of the Right portion of the spectrum, I would say, because of the Rightward skew of the whole spectrum, that PO's Center position ends up being Right of where the authentic Center would be if "our" representation were more authentic (i.e. not skewed) in manifesting the WHOLE variety of positions actually found in the body politic Left to Right. This means that PO is actually something Right of Center at this point in time, but not as far as Center Right.