What is Obama's relationship to the DLC?

[undeterred]

I'm askin'.

[Bullet1987]

1. I heard he snubbed a meeting of theirs...

[anonymous171]

2. He's praised Bill Clinton's "third way" policies I believe.

Other than that, I don't know.

[Occam Bandage]

3. None officially. He's conspicuously snubbed a few meetings of theirs, and attacked Clinton's

Third Way policy of governing for allowing the Reagan trajectory to continue unabated. At the same time, he's a fan of bipartisanship and of co-opting Republican hot-button issues. Ironically, it's the same people bashing him now for being "too DLC" who bashed him then for "praising Reagan."

[tkmorris]

4. IIRC, wasn't he once listed as a member but...

When he learned they had him listed he demanded they remove his name? I seem to recall hearing something of this sort around the time of his Senate election.

[ingac70]

6. He wasn't listed as a member but was...

listed as an up and comer on their website... that is what he demanded be removed.

[undeterred]

8. Good.

He escaped their clutches.

[undeterred]

5. I'm hearing him called a DLC Democrat and the most liberal Senator

in the Senate. Depends which direction people are coming from.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. I think that means he's doing something right.

:D

[defendandprotect]

7. Let's hope there is no relationship and that he keeps it that way . . ..

[Pirate Smile]

9. He asked them to take his name off their list as a member and he didn't go to their big powwow in

Chicago just days ago even though he was in town and hanging out.

[wyldwolf]

10. other than just about every policy position he has?

Heres this:

"It was Bill Clinton's singular contribution that he recognized that the categories of conservative and liberal played to Republican advantage and were inadequate to address our problems.

He understood the falseness of the choices being presented to Americans. He saw that government spending and regulation could serve as vital ingredients and not inhibitors to growth, and how markets and fiscal responsibility could help promote social justice. He recognized that societal and personal responsibility were needed to combat poverty. Clinton's third way went beyond splitting the difference. It tapped into the pragmatic, nonideological attitude of Americans.

By the end of his presidency, his policies enjoyed broad support. That he failed, despite a booming economy, to translate popular policies into a governing coalition said something about the demographic difficulties Democrats were facing and the structural advantages Republicans enjoyed in the Senate."

--- Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope," praising Clinton, the Third Way, and triangulation.