2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ok then, Let's spell it out for Hillary "Democrats" [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)Obama ran on hope and change and as a liberal. His policies were public option with no mandate health insurance. He ran for taxing the rich more and more banking regulation. He ran running on new energy policies favoring green energy. He ran on gun control criticizing Hillarys gun policies. He ran on no torture, trumpeting his anti iraq war vote and against foreign interventions. He trumpeted his history as a community activist rather than a corporate lawyer.
The fact that after being elected he appointed goldman sacks and monsanto executives is not how he ran. Hope and change was the main message in reversing the course of the Bush Administration to a liberal track. What you are referring to is the fact that like most politicians a lot of his promises were not totally specific (except his health plan). However, he never presented any corporate or conservative or moderate polices for the publics consideration. The only policies he actually spelled out were totally liberal and his whole campaign was based on liberal hope and change ABOLUTELY INTENTIONALLY. Liberals expected Obama to be liberal because that was how he ran and what he wanted us to believe. If he was not misrepresenting himself (to be nicer than saying lying) no one who came out to the millions of people marches would think he would adopt any conservative policies.
You are just making things up.