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In the discussion thread: Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s [View all]

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Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:42 AM

tabasco (18,290 posts)

98. Do something about that, Mr. President!

I'd be ashamed.

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117 replies	Author	Time	Post
Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s [View all]	kpete	Dec 2012	OP
Obama channels Cornel West	Enrique	Dec 2012	#1
Yes sir, he did indeed vindicate Dr West	me b zola	Dec 2012	#2
Exactly!	Wind Dancer	Dec 2012	#18
I hear you.	Phlem	Mar 6	#115
Does this mean he should be banned from DU?	dogman	Dec 2012	#3
"DU needs to work together to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans..." - DU TOS	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#7
More like Grayson, Warren, and Sherod Brown etc etc etc	think	Dec 2012	#13
And his civil liberties stances would be	adieu	Dec 2012	#4
That's about right	Flatpicker	Dec 2012	#23
Pro-gay marriage, repealing DADT, equal pay for women, pro-choice all the way...	phleshdef	Dec 2012	#59
Not exactly	JonLP24	Dec 2012	#62
FDR did worse.	phleshdef	Dec 2012	#63
Pro off shore drilling and drilling in Alaska.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#79
Wolves no longer protected.	NCarolinawoman	Dec 2012	#95
Oh yeah.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#96
Which has fuck all to do with civil liberties. You are attempting to argue like a Republican now...	phleshdef	Dec 2012	#99
You're the one who changed the subject.	enlightenment	Dec 2012	#101
Um no I didn't. Learn how to read a thread.	phleshdef	Dec 2012	#108
You don't remember Republicans chanting	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#102
Yes, and the problem is we voted for a progressive Democrat! Government is the people, and	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#5
yes!	Ed Suspicious	Dec 2012	#26
... some of us see him as a Moderate Republican NOW.	Myrina	Dec 2012	#6
S'wot I said	TalkingDog	Dec 2012	#47
BINGO!	truebluegreen	Dec 2012	#66
Yep.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#80
Jeez, are there any left?	Eleanors38	Dec 2012	#83
Thank you, Mr. President.	JHB	Dec 2012	#8
Well, I voted For and took his	fredamae	Dec 2012	#9
Sure, but his comparison isn't really inconsistant with that.	Bucky	Dec 2012	#14
yes it was	demwing	Dec 2012	#37
I recall when all those Rockefeller Republicans came out for gay marriage & legalized pot	Bucky	Dec 2012	#10
I appreciate Obama's honesty is these regards. /nt	think	Dec 2012	#11
President Obama	ProSense	Dec 2012	#12
Come on, now ProSense. You know that they won't read the entire passage for context.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Dec 2012	#25
It's a good statement, it's heartfelt, it's honest.	Tom Rinaldo	Dec 2012	#28
Obama's policies are actually very far to the right of Eisenhower	MannyGoldstein	Dec 2012	#38
I think President Obama's	ProSense	Dec 2012	#42
He "gave" us health care reform?	truebluegreen	Dec 2012	#67
Here's the	ProSense	Dec 2012	#94
I remember that, too.	kurtzapril4	Dec 2012	#51
Refreshing, too	PurityOfEssence	Dec 2012	#57
Yeah, the Republicans are the far right	brentspeak	Dec 2012	#31
Why don't	John2	Dec 2012	#49
Sounds like he's announcing that	Doctor_J	Dec 2012	#15
The Third Way	zipplewrath	Dec 2012	#16
He's right about that	FiveGoodMen	Dec 2012	#17
I'm glad that even the Prez acknowledges the fact that	CheapShotArtist	Dec 2012	#19
1980's! Hell, I see him as a moderate Republican today. He's sure no Democrat.	LoisB	Dec 2012	#20
How About A Reagan Democrat?	wellst0nev0ter	Dec 2012	#29
He's the most liberal President ever!!!	progressoid	Dec 2012	#21
LOL! n/t	kurtzapril4	Dec 2012	#52
lol	ballaratocker	Dec 2012	#77
You can take that to the bank.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#81
Don't blame Obama that a moderate GOPer in the 80s might be considered a leftwing liberal today	andym	Dec 2012	#22
And He Let The Reichwing Freaks Pull Him To The Right	wellst0nev0ter	Dec 2012	#30
No, he was there before he left college.	Eleanors38	Dec 2012	#85
Bookmarking	Solly Mack	Dec 2012	#24
James Carville said it in 2011	rcmooney	Dec 2012	#27
which is one reason I vote Green in the 2000s....	mike_c	Dec 2012	#32
Why are we bashing Obama here?	cosmicone	Dec 2012	#33
And yet. I didn't vote for any of them because, as moderate as they were, Dems were better.	Luminous Animal	Dec 2012	#39
For what I can remember a 1980's republican could	Third Doctor	Dec 2012	#56
I feel the same way you do.	Liberalynn	Dec 2012	#65
Excuse me, quoting is now bashing?	JackRiddler	Dec 2012	#89
Because he admitted he's a Republican	Doctor_J	Dec 2012	#90
well no shit	frylock	Dec 2012	#34
I'd like to know which "moderate" Republican he thinks he's like.	forestpath	Dec 2012	#35
"I don't think government can solve every problem". So if it's very wealthy people that you	jtuck004	Dec 2012	#36
You don't care about context?	demwing	Dec 2012	#40
So when a kid leaves school on Friday, and EVERYONE around them knows they won't have	jtuck004	Dec 2012	#48
This thread is a great study in sociology/psychology	MannyGoldstein	Dec 2012	#41
Yeah,	ProSense	Dec 2012	#43
Yeah, the hatred for anyone perceived as being to the left of Obama is palpable	Fumesucker	Dec 2012	#61
The site of you in this thread	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#82
Nice	Phlem	Mar 6	#116
Really? Holy cow, I had no idea. I mean that is an amazing observation.	Safetykitten	Dec 2012	#44
wtf he admits it??!!	limpyhobbler	Dec 2012	#45
Pretty well-known before he ran in '08...	Eleanors38	Dec 2012	#87
He says that like he thinks its a good thing	tularetom	Dec 2012	#46
It IS a good thing	WestCoastLib	Dec 2012	#58
No it's not it's a BAD thing. The country needs more than an 1980s Republican to face down	byeya	Dec 2012	#105
Disagree. The country hasn't shifted, but.........	socialist_n_TN	Dec 2012	#107
What we have gotten 'til now is not even moderate. It is right-wing.	woo me with science	Dec 2012	#50
^^^This^^^	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#84
More of this !	Phlem	Mar 6	#117
Well isn't that just fucking swell.	Fearless	Dec 2012	#53
I think more than a few people view him as trying to impose socialism	NewJeffCT	Dec 2012	#54
and the only way 1/3 of the people believe that shite	newspeak	Dec 2012	#69
I imagine he's trying to defuse the GOP rhetoric	defacto7	Dec 2012	#55
Then he should have run as one.	Octafish	Dec 2012	#60
In some ways	Kelvin Mace	Dec 2012	#64
uh, if he would have said like an eisenhower republican, I might have been more impressed	newspeak	Dec 2012	#68
So, wouldn't that position him as generally against the Social Safety Net?	NorthCarolina	Dec 2012	#70
They wanted me PPR'd for saying he was a Republican	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#86
And anti-union and anti-public school	Doctor_J	Dec 2012	#91
dam..i`ve been saying that for a few years now.	madrchsod	Dec 2012	#71
As Bill Maher said....	lbrtbell	Dec 2012	#72
Everyone on this thread is missing the saddest part ...	dawg	Dec 2012	#73
don't really need to go back to the 80's	Skittles	Dec 2012	#74
That's kind a funny!	Dyedinthewoolliberal	Dec 2012	#75
So, since the election is over, can we criticize him now? /nt	Ash_F	Dec 2012	#76
''The truth of the matter is.....''	DeSwiss	Dec 2012	#78
He said this to marginalize wacko republicans and attract independents but	pampango	Dec 2012	#88
He is not a Liberal democrat	Resonance_Chamber	Dec 2012	#92
So I guess you're not a fan of FDR.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#97
A big fan. I believe Obama would govern differently	pampango	Dec 2012	#111
Yeah well that sucks	workinclasszero	Dec 2012	#93
I see him as a moderate Republican now.	ozone_man	Dec 2012	#110
Do something about that, Mr. President!	tabasco	Dec 2012	#98
Well then	Steerpike	Dec 2012	#100
Uh--oh.	bvar22	Dec 2012	#103
Not as I remember	rock	Dec 2012	#104
Where's the action behind the campaign promise that he'd walk the picket lines with strikers	byeya	Dec 2012	#106
I was blocked from the Barack Obama Group for posting this article there.	UnrepentantLiberal	Dec 2012	#109
To be fair	DonCoquixote	Dec 2012	#112
The Repubs just got their asses handed to them by listening to their fringe	Number23	Dec 2012	#113
Obama is closer to the policies of Reagan than the current Republicans	Joe the Progressive	Dec 2012	#114

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