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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]Zorra
(27,670 posts)20. I believe this quote sums up the President's ideology pretty accurately
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"I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path, because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown, but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think peoplehe just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing." ~ Barack Obama
Obviously, the country was not ready for the different path that that Reagan put us on. The racist, misogynist, homophobic actor/sociopath led America down the garden path, and destroyed the country, and we have not even come close to being recovered from the destruction of the Reagan era to this day.
The dirty fucking hippies were right; Reagan was definitely not.
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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