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In reply to the discussion: Where do you think President Obama stands in terms of being progressive vs. centrist/conservative? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,038 posts)7. Other: I think he is a technocratic administrator type who is moderately conservative
in a pre - Teabagger era sense.
I believe if Republicans were both more tolerant racially and more diverse geographically that he would have had a choice of parties that he could be on the edge of. Might still have been if he had come up and been in his prime in the 70's if he tacked east instead of Chicago.
You don't get left anything with a cabinet full of Rubinites and out Republicans. The cabinets show the heading.
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Where do you think President Obama stands in terms of being progressive vs. centrist/conservative? [View all]
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
OP
I personally interpreted his 2004 national debut speech at The Democratic National Convention
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
#37
Other: I think he is a technocratic administrator type who is moderately conservative
TheKentuckian
Mar 2014
#7
He's a "pragmatic", "savvy", centrist politican who is willing to be Not as Bad to be president.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#9
Not when you add appointed Wall Street execs into the WH, Monsanto execs to the EPA,
cui bono
Mar 2014
#29
I think anyone who thinks the President is center-RIGHT under the modern definitions...
Shandris
Mar 2014
#12
I know what you mean - a few minutes in a local bar where I live would certainly expose anyone to
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
#41
Big Business, Moderate Republican by nature-- but he's a professional, Third Way-type politician.
Marr
Mar 2014
#15
Yeah, I frankly don't think President Obama was lying at all when he described himself politically
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2014
#35
Well, you either don't know what majority means or don't know who Reagan was
cthulu2016
Mar 2014
#39
I picked '3' because it was closest to my subjective interpretation of him.
GiveMeMorePIE
Mar 2014
#28
Center-right or center-left, depending on the issue. So basically about as middle of the road
nomorenomore08
Mar 2014
#46