Is Obama a Professional Liberal?

[BeFree]

Or what?

A professional centrist?

Is there a great divide between where most of us are and where Obama is?

[Bluebear]

1. Obama? Liberal?

No.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. +1

:thumbsup:

[MissDeeds]

15. +2

[Individualist]

23. +1

[Bluebear]

2. .

[zipplewrath]

3. Professional politician

He's a "new democrat".

I'm not sure where "most of us" are.

[notadmblnd]

6. or to use the correct terminology, a neo liberal

[MissDeeds]

16. More likely conserva-dem

or neo-dem. I don't think the term 'liberal' can be used accurately in any way with Obama.

[notadmblnd]

17. Neo liberal was the term used in my political science class I took a couple of years back.

At the time both I was left with the impression that neo conservatives and neo liberals were very similar in their ideology on certain things.

[MissDeeds]

25. That was a couple years ago

I'm a college professor and most of the colleagues I run into at various conferences seem to think Obama is centrist, if not more to the right. I imagine a new term to describe his stance will soon be part of the lexicon.

;)

[LWolf]

4. He's a professional politician, and a self-identified "new" democrat. nt

[CBR]

5. DLC... Centrist... Corporatist... lets get it out of the way... nt

[MineralMan]

12. What is that cartoon character in your signature line?

Looks like something from Dr. Seuss. It's sorta cute.

And what does that blue star represent. Is it a military thing or something?

[Capitalocracy]

18. Star-bellied sneeches have stars upon thars.

It's about prejudice-baiting for profit. One of Dr. Seuss's more activist works, like the Lorax and the Butter Battle Book.

[MineralMan]

31. Thanks. I'll go look that up. Sneeches, eh?

Interesting.

[TheKentuckian]

33. We can all go through the machine a billion times and I'll still be able to discern quite well

who is who and what is what because only for a time can what is inside be hid.

This is not a question of stars or none on thars but of if sneeches at all are on the beaches.

See, these sneeches are sneeches because of what is inside not necessarily by birth, education, nor anything that can be bought or sold.

A (D) or an (R) or an (I) really isn't so different than a star or none on thars. They can go into a sly salesman's machine and stamp any one of those things on them but inside they are still sneeches or not sneeches at all.

[Capitalocracy]

35. Dr. Seuss was great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yN-jJLj0k

:toast:

[bananas]

7. No, he's a right-wing authoritarian

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4028637&mesg_id=4028771

[Renew Deal]

8. Obama is a doer

Most of the rest are complainers

[SammyWinstonJack]

Wall St isn't complaining, neither are Big Oil/Pharma/Health Insurance corps.

:shrug:

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. dupe

:shrug:

[notadmblnd]

20. no, most of the rest are people who worked their butts off to GOTV

for him, only to disappointed by his "must not rock the boat" actions.

Name me one time where the Republicans bent over backwards to accomodate the Dems while bush was pretzledent? This administrations stance since the beginning has not only been accomodating, it leaves one feeling that this administration are professional contortonists for Cirque Du Soleil.

[frylock]

28. he's not doing it right

[Fumesucker]

30. I agree..

He's certainly doing us..

[MineralMan]

9. He's the President of The United States.

That's what he is. Thank goodness it's not John McCain. Thank you, voters! Thank you very much!

[old mark]

11. I don't think he is a liberal at all - the idea that the right thinks he is

a socialist is a real joke.


mark

[BeFree]

21. 'Tis weird, eh?

How Obama is seen in such a dichotomous way.

He ain't no out-of-the-closet socialist, for sure.

[old mark]

32. On several pro gun forums, I posted that I was far left of Obama and think he is a moderate....

they think I am Stalin now...I was actually told to leave one site for political reasons.

mark
the commie

[mmonk]

13. Certainly not liberal regardless of what a heavily propagandized

American public is led to believe. I would say a Chicago School economic and political intellectual.

[liberal N proud]

19. I want a pony

A pink one!

[Capitalocracy]

34. I want a donkey

[Individualist]

22. He has admitted he's a New Democrat

NDC same as DLC.

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[damntexdem]

26. A professional centrist and an amateur liberal?

[Smarmie Doofus]

27. He *was*. nt

[LatteLibertine]

29. I feel

he's more liberal at heart than some may believe.