prediction: obama will begin taking hard left turns..

[meow mix]

which is great!! right up to the day of the election.

at which point said turning will be hard and to the right.

:hide:

[polichick]

1. He won't take hard left turns without a primary challenger - he won't have to.

[Brianboru]

10. 0bama lies. He lied about Gitmo - still open. He lied about

ending the wars - he started two new ones.

He lied about gay marriage - he signed a questionnaire supporting it for political benefit, then changed his mind.

He lied about repealing the Bush tax cuts.

Seriously, who can trust this guy?

[polichick]

17. Apparently a lot of DUers still "trust this guy" - imo it's foolish to trust politicians.

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[RaleighNCDUer]

14. Sorry, but he does not need to have a primary challenger to lose

the left wing of the party and progressive independents.

[polichick]

16. It's pretty clear from comments made by his team that they think...

...the left will fall into line, which is why they have no problem bashing the left.

[bluethruandthru]

21. and his team is made up of wall street/corporate big wigs so

there's really no one to point him in the right..I mean LEFT...direction!

[polichick]

22. True, and imo he's going in the direction he means to go...

...along with a lot of other "Dems."

We have two corporate parties and no party that represents traditionally liberal ideas. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we'll collectively do something about it.

[RC]

24. Correction. We have no political party that represents the average citizen.

Neither "We the people..." nor "Consent of the governed" are in force.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

[polichick]

26. That's what "traditionally liberal ideas" are all about.

[bowens43]

2. my pediction

he'll talk like he's taking left turns but will not do so.......he will continue to move steadily to the right.

[meow mix]

3. ok maybe soft, detectable turns..

with the end result staying the same.

good point.

oops i meant this as a reply to post #1 =(

[gratuitous]

4. Three of them, to be precise

I don't hold out much hope, I'm afraid.

[villager]

19. +1

n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

5. well - people whine when he doesn't

and they'll whine when he does.

[COLGATE4]

6. We on;ly whine when what he "does" is worse than having done

nothing at all.

[MineralMan]

7. Prediction: When this doesn't come true, you won't post a thing

about it. I expect that President Obama will say much the same as he's always said.

[meow mix]

11. "campaign obama" is becoming more tangible..

and soon he'll have solid form again wait and see

:patriot:

[Solomon]

25. Nice job of setting him up so that no matter what he says or does

you win. If he tacks left, you'll say, see I told ya so, he's doesn't mean it he's just lying. If he tacks right, you'll say, see I told ya so.

Nicely done.

:thumbsup:

[okasha]

8. When you can ski in the Sahara.

n/t

[BOG PERSON]

9. predictions for next year: china will become a multiparty liberal democracy

israel and palestine will become integrated into one democratic state

[Poll_Blind]

12. I don't even think he'll do that. The Left is nolonger much of a concern for him, IMO- it's all...

...about the Center now. As I've been saying for a while, based on his actions I have every reason to believe that Obama successfully rode the Left into the Presidency and intends to court the Center for a re-election in 2012. And this would necessitate the kind of distancing from many issues associated with the Left and playing more Center/Center Right.

I predict that if he wins in 2012, it will be by a huge number of votes. They Democrats are forced to vote for him or stay home on election day, so there's a pretty big chunk, and then the Center/Center Right added as another layer on top. How thick that second layer of votes would be, I can't really say. I think it depends on who the Republican candidate is. But if the GOP candidate is weak or inarticulate, I see President Obama cleaning up chips from the center of the table.

PB

[meow mix]

29. moderates are also to his left... and the US in general.

just speaking from my own opinion of course =)

but if that is the case, he needs to maneuver before asking them for a another term.

[NorthCarolina]

13. The DLC has never hid the fact that their SOP is to Run Left & Govern Right. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. Correction: Hard left campaign promises.

And we'll eat them up like they're candy.

[kctim]

18. Why would President Obama

want to piss of the majority of his Party?

[damntexdem]

20. Either direction, look for a lot of spin.

[Hawkowl]

23. And monkees will fly out of my ass

Obama is incapable of taking any left turns, unless you count his three right turns.

[piratefish08]

27. it'll be hard left hope and hard right change.......

if the last few years are any kind of indicator......

[Javaman]

30. So he will be going in circles?

I'm not holding my breath.

Until I see real action, I will be over here reading up on FDR.

[madinmaryland]

31. He is going to run in NASCAR next year?

[xphile]

32. Based on his performance so far there is absolutely no basis for such

a prediction.

Quite the opposite actually.

[daggahead]

33. I hate to say this, but ...

... unless there is somebody challenging Obama in a primary and beating him for the Democratic nomination, I will only have the choice of voting for the lesser of two evils (Obama).