Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

If you go back and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, listen with your now 'experienc­ed ears' (experienc­ed in lawyer-spe­ak, aka Bush-speak­, although Bush needed a team of speech writers to do what Obama is 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 to get their vote.

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.”  It's why even among his 'most ardent admirers', they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican­.  The debate should be over:  "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".

Blue Dog = (Might as well be registered as a) Republican

Ideologica­lly, Obama's a Republican -- More precisely he's a neoliberal (no relationsh­ip to liberal at all) - http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/N­eoliberali­sm .


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