Reply #111: You didnt even read what I wrote

[Ramulux]

Your just proving my point about how weird and illogical all the Obama devotees on this site are.

I will make this very clear so you dont go off about something I didn't even bring up.

Are the people of this country more liberal than they were 40 years ago? Absolutely. I never said they weren't.

Has Obama done some really good stuff as president? Of course. There is no way that all the things you brought up would have been done under a republican president.

However, the article isn't talking about any of that stuff. There are two points that Cenk makes, the first being that the right has engaged in such an effective smear campaign on liberalism that actual liberal positions simply aren't respected by anyone in the media or the political establishment. The second is that Obama has been an extremely moderate, corporatist president who is not willing to fight for liberal legislation.

Cenk isn't trying to say that Obama is "really" more of a conservative than Reagan, that's ridiculous. He is simply using Reagan as an example of how the political spectrum has shifted on certain issues to the point where the liberal position no longer even exists. With Obama all we get is compromise and when you compromise between far right ideas and centrist ideas you get slightly right-leaning legislation.