How liberal/progressive vs. centrist do you think President Obama would be if he could be?

[Douglas Carpenter]

Okay we all agree that no politician can get all their agenda through - Some maintain that President Obama would be a lot more progressive if he had the Congress and other political forces on his side. Others maintain that he really is a centrist, at best a center-left centrist - but perhaps even a somewhat center-right centrist. What do you think?

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	.I think President Obama is really a strong progressive at heart and if he had the political backing he would have cut military spending, brought in much tougher reform of the financial industry, instituted single payer universal healthcare and expanded the social security system significantly
	2 (40%)
	I think President Obama is really a pro-Wall Street centrist at heart and is largely achieving an agenda that is at most center-left and perhaps even closer to being center-right
	1 (20%)
	I think at heart President Obama is somewhere between a centrist and a New Deal liberal who would probably be more progressive than he is currently being - but would not be pushing major Great Society/New Deal type reforms even if he had a very strong chance of getting them made into law.
	2 (40%)
	I think President Obama is essentially non-ideological and is more a manager type of leader than a movement politician. He would pursue whatever agenda that is the accepted consensus of the political class as being pragmatic and politically viable.
	0 (0%)
	I really, honestly don't know
	0 (0%)
	Right now I could go for genuine bruschetta with a glass of a good quality red wine followed by a light olive oil based pasta.
	0 (0%)
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