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In reply to the discussion: Obama shouldn't 'evolve' on anything. [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)To you Obama is likely someone who is a third way right winger.
To me he's a politician who can win some or lose some and he makes those decisions on a pragmatic basis.
A black person surrounding themselves with corporate tools? No shit. He said, before he was elected, he would have a bipartisan cabinet. To me? I thought that was bullshit. But he made that clear. In the end he had the most bipartisan cabinet in US Presidential history. Do I like that? Fuck no, fuck that shit. But that's what he campaigned on! He literally campaigned on that crap.
Obama the campaigner said whatever he needed to say to get elected. He's been the most consistent President in my entire lifetime. There's no other President who has lived up to their positions. The only pathetic part is that Obama's positions were mediocre at best. Fortunately, he has opened the floodgates for a Hillary presidency which will be 10x more progressive than his own. And you can bookmark this post, I promise you, Hillary will make Obama look like a right winger in comparison. And it wouldn't have happened without Obama's "pragmatism."