Reply #67: Look, I am now considered to be on theleft.

[JDPriestly]

In the 1960s, I was considered to be a moderately liberal Democrat. Many, many Democrats were much further left than I was, and they were loud about it.

Reagan's extreme right-wing thinking shifted the entire country to the right. The Democratic Party went way, way, way to the right with it.

Our last Democratic president, Clinton signed anti-labor bills like NAFTA and pro-business bills like the banking and commodities reform bills that ended needed regulation. For all its faults, the Clinton administration did not enter in or continue fighting any completely illegal wars. If I recall correctly, the conflict in Kosovo was already in progress. We intervened as peacekeepers.

Obama's policies are even further to the right than were Clintons. If I seem left compared to him, I'm still a middle-of-the-road Democrats by the standards I grew up with.