That's a load of cr@p, kay360;
In Audacity Of Hope, Obama said of his political appeal: “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”
Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. It's why even his 'most ardent admirers' still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist.
Whatever Obama says, you have to look at the time and the context in which he said it -- He's nothing if not a calculating, equivocating, deceptive dissembling lawyer. Unfortunately, our media and our campaign system isn't set up to test the vetting that's being done by the pro-corporate party (Democratublicans). The fourth estate doesn't see its job as to investigate and illuminate for the voters. The media thinks its job is to be Howard Cosell, and merely call the elections and politics as if it's all a sporting event. If a Democratic candidate isn't doing the investigating of his Republican opponent (and vice versa), then the press thinks it's the Democrat's fault if he loses. Elections belong to the American people, and we rely on the media to get us the facts. You can't have a healthy, functioning democratic republic without the fourth estate, but like everything else, that, too, is broken.
When Obama said about admiring Reagan and what he wanted to emulate about him, "I think RonaldReagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, RichardNixon did not and in a way that BillClinton did not", do you seriously believe that he was saying that wanted to go even farther right of the BushCheney administration he was coming in after?
If you go back and watch CandidateObama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, and listen with your now 'experienced ears' (experienced in lawyer-speak, aka Bush-speak, although Bush needed a team of speechwriters to do what Obama's able to do on his own, i.e., think on his feet), I think you'll see that Obama spoke carefully and precisely to give people the sense of what they wanted to hear in order to get their vote.
Obama's nothing but a politician, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word. In the 'used car salesman' sense. It turns out that doing what's right for transnational corporations is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican, "What's good for GM is good for America." He did a snow job on everybody.
Stop BSing, get yourself an honest job instead of this one pushing Obama-propanda online.
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