Where Would You Put President Obama On The Political Spectrum?

[Dinger]

Poll question: Where Would You Put President Obama On The Political Spectrum?

[Writer]

1. A pragmatic technocrat who doesn't give a shit about ideology. n/t

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. Yes please!

[jefferson_dem]

15. Yes.

Thank goodness. Fuck the stale labels.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I see him as a conservative Dem, but that may be relative to where I am standing way over here on

the left. :shrug:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Moderate... just about dead center of all Dem elected officials

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Obama occupies a place slightly to the left of the political Center.

...and I would call him a centrist.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. A Nixon Republican

Don't just scoff... Think about it.

[harun]

7. Not scoffing, thinking and... agreeing.

That being said that is not at all what I voted for. If he ends up having a full reign of office as a Nixon Republican in terms of foreign policy I will be f*cking livid.

[Better Believe It]

8. That liberal?

I understand your point. It's a good one.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Actually, Nixon's Health Care Reform Proposal Was Way To The Left Of Obama's

I was reluctant to write that because I'm tired of being called an asshole, which is what happens when I make comparisons that drive people nuts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7247241">But it's true.

[IndianaGreen]

11. It is true what you say.

Nixon also tried to consolidate the different departments of government, but the Congress objected because it would have meant a reduction in the number of committees and sub-committees.

[jefferson_dem]

16. I wouldn't call you an asshole or nuts. I would call you misinformed.

Obama's health care reform proposal is to the Left of the one your avatar hero offered in 2004. You know, the one who's lecturing us all now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x63293

Try again?

[MannyGoldstein]

17. One Step At A Time: So You Disagree That Nixon's Plan Was to the Left of Obama's?

Night-night. I'll look for your response in the AM.

And then then I can point out how you're wrong about Dean's plan (which wasn't great, but it was way better than the current mess).

[Jim Sagle]

10. Reagan Republican.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Clinton without the sleaze

[xultar]

22. +1

[Dinger]

14. Wasn't regan Once A Democrat?

Hmmm.

[Jim Sagle]

19. He was indeed.

[GreenArrow]

23. He didn't leave the party, the party left him.

Which, if he doesn't start rethinking his approach, may happen to the current Prez.

[BlueIdaho]

13. A guy who hates to be tied down by political labels

Just so long as everyone likes him.

[VMI Dem]

18. A right leaning centrist.

[Unvanguard]

20. The issue with Obama has never been his ideology. By all indication he's fairly liberal.

If he has a problem, it's tactical: he is too personally committed to discussion and compromise rather than action and fighting.

[old mark]

21. Other; He is what used to be called a moderate Republican.

It's really a joke that some people think he's a radical socialist leftist. He's more like Eisenhower than FDR.

He is a huge disappointment to me.


mark

[DrToast]

24. I actually think Obama is pretty liberal. Unfortunately...

...I also think he's too afraid to fight for anything. He also doesn't like it when people don't like him. So rather than upset people, he'll take what he can get. Of course, he failed to realize how much this would piss off those who DO like him.

[Vidar]

25. A corrupt self-server with no principles he won't betray.

[Orsino]

26. Take out the word "Democrat," and our answers might mean something.

The political spectrum has little to do with either major party.

[Jennicut]

27. A moderate to centrist Dem, exactly what I expected.

His record was never that liberal.

[pscot]

28. You left out Corporate Democrat

which is how he comes across. He's a DLCer at heart.

[Hutzpa]

29. I see the DLC are fighting to claim him

I thought the primaries where over...


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