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[indimuse]

Is Obama Really a Progressive Democrat?
I really wonder if Sen. Barack Obama is the progressive Democrat that he claims to be and if Sen. Obama is so ambitiously anxious to be President, that he's too willing to compromise our party's progressive values.

Is Obama a moderate Republican wrapped in Democratic trappings??

November 30, 2007 when respected progressive Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote:


"I recently castigated Mr. Obama for adopting right-wing talking points about a Social Security 'crisis.' Now he’s echoing right-wing talking points on health care...

What seems to have happened is that Mr. Obama’s caution, his reluctance to stake out a clearly partisan position, led him to propose a relatively weak, incomplete health care plan...

Now, in the effort to defend his plan’s weakness, he’s attacking his Democratic opponents from the right — and in so doing giving aid and comfort to the enemies of reform. "