Will Obama be the Center RIGHT president?

[Bushknew]

With his current appointments, Gupta, tax cuts and silence on the Israeli massacre, looks like Obama will be a Center Right president.

Emphasis on the right.

[blogslut]

1. oy

pass the popcorn

[flvegan]

2. Good seat, nice and early.

:popcorn:

[ThomWV]

3. Not if he wants a second fuggin' term

[Winterblues]

4. I guess we all are just going to have to wait and see.

I suspect he will go down in History as one of America's best but I certainly have been wrong before.

[marimour]

5. yes.

We all know that tax cuts for the middle class (aka not the rich) are a horrible thing.
Plus when ok's embryonic stem cell research as soon as he gets into office that will only prove he is pandering to the pro-stem cell right.

:sarcasm:

[bunnies]

6. WTF is a Guba?

:shrug:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. A devastating cyclone in the Pacific.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Guba

Seriously, why didn't Obama stop it?!?

[bunnies]

16. That does it. What a bastard.

I want my vote back. :nuke:

[Forkboy]

9. He's an old Ramones fan who forgot the lines.

Hey OP, it's Gabba Gabba Hey!

[ThomWV]

10. Abug spelled backwards ...

[Bushknew]

13. Sorry, it's Gupta - Sanjay Gupta

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. Well, at least you spelled Obama correctly.

I guess that's something.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. .

[Forkboy]

11. Do you think the "center" is one pin point on the political spectrum?

Or do you believe it encompasses a little on the right and a little on the left. In other words, on a scale of 1 to 100, 40-60 could represent the center, not just 50.

Now, if Obama has made it clear all along that he going to represent the center, wouldn't that lead to some decisions coming down on the right side of 50? And that some will come down on the left side? Did you really think he was only going to represent the left end of the center?

[bvar22]

36. The Center is....

....Half Republican.

I'm ALL Democrat.

[Demit]

12. He's not president yet. Why don't you wait and see? Instead of speculating ominously?

Especially on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. What part of 'we only have one president at a time' doesn't make sense to you?

[TheWraith]

14. Thank you for your concern trolling.

Fuck, and I thought we were supposed to be the reality-based community.

[bridgit]

18. heh-heh, good one...

[bridgit]

17. yes, but only after he's dragged that way

[dysfunctional press]

19. he has to prove that he's not the ultra-liberal the ultra-right paints him to be...

so, in a word- Yes.

[Fading Captain]

41. WHy the fuck does he have to prove ANYTHING to the ULTRARIGHT?

Are you serious?

[Lorien]

20. He was always center-right

Why would anyone think that he was anything else? Many of us voted for him because he isn't FAR right. The Left has no voice in the US of A.

[Still Sensible]

21. It all depends on where you put the center line

doesn't it.

[Lorien]

28. Read the site and take the test for yourself. The "center" has been right wing

in America for some time now. As a British Tory told me not long ago "We Tories see Democrats as our kind of conservatives. Republicans, on the other hand, are just plain scary".


www.politicalcompass.org

[RiverStone]

22. Can we judge his presidency AFTER he actually is president? n/t

[Bushknew]

24. Why not appoint Howard Dean to Surgeon General, why Sanjay Gupta?

[global1]

23. Well If This Picture Is Any Indication......

[leftstreet]

26. LOL Carter appears to be distancing himself

Love to know what's going through his mind

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Politicians, like actors, play to their audience.

If the audience starts throwing tomatoes, or shoes, they tend to duck and think about changing their policies.

[Naturyl]

27. Looks like he's going to be a centrist triangulator at minimum

Hope I'm wrong, but can't say it would come as any kind of surprise.

[LWolf]

29. Yes.

Of course, I've been pointing that out for a fucking year now.

[Critters2]

39. You and me both. To no avail. nt

[many a good man]

30. Seems to be defining Liberal as center-right

Somebody tell the MSM that liberal means LEFT of center.

[ananda]

31. That's how he voted in the Senate..

.. and how he ran in the campaign.

Obama has NEVER been a leftie.

[TheKentuckian]

32. Only if you take him out of the context of America

In this country he's a solid lefty and Kucinich is a far left loon.

Meanwhile, by the little test I'm a pretty hard core leftist but don't see any incredible gulf between Obama's positions and most of my own. Sure, I want a President to left of me but I certainly don't expect the country could take a jolt like that in on move and remain intact. Considering the last 30-40 years, it would seem like center-right would be a breath of fresh air. When's the last time the US had a more left bearing President than France? What if he was center-left, how much difference would be? Or is it especially any? A single change in an outlook what swap it.

This me and I'm damn near right wing on this site. Obama will be fine.

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

[Pastiche423]

33. YES

He has already made that quite clear.

[PurityOfEssence]

46. It's the best we can get right now; we should basically be relieved

Much as most of this was telegraphed ahead of time, the deliberate evasiveness was quite successful in suckering in the leftists and pacifists necessary to get him over the top. We are also riding a false high when looking at that 53% victory: had there not been a full-scale financial DISASTER a month and a half before the election, it could have had a different outcome.

[Pastiche423]

47. You are correct

The evasiveness was there from the start. My leftie neighbors and I discussed this many times during the campaign. They were for your guy, I was for someone entirely different. Before the election we hoped that we were wrong and that liberals would be repesented substaniatially in the new administration.

Our hopes were dashed quite soon after.

[depakid]

34. Essentially Clinton without so much deregulatory focus

Not sure why anyone would be surprised by this...

[endlessfugue]

35. I thought this was obvious with FISA n/t

[bvar22]

37. AND the...

..no strings attached Bailout of Wall Street CEOs.

[brentspeak]

38. Don't forget his self-appointed spokespeople here who claimed he was the "most progressive" Dem

during the primaries.

[Critters2]

40. I know! What was that about?! nt

[ProgressIn2008]

42. Pretty much, though he's really about par for the course, nothing unusual

It was just the celeb-cipher image that sold a product any different. He's one more triangulating DLC coward, but I won't pick on him for being especially bad. He's average, merely mediocre on the pink tutu scale.

What's really amusing is to see people insisting he will still go after Bush... and he's doing the slap happy photo shoots with All The Presidents, Jr and Sr included. I don't believe Obama believes Bush did anything wrong. If he does believe Bush was all we said he was, I don't know what kind of man would do a photo op next to a war criminal. Well, I guess I do know what kind of man would do that.

[leftofthedial]

43. way more right than center so far.

[alfredo]

44. People are really good at projecting their desires on Barack. If they want

to see him as center right, go right ahead.

[JCMach1]

45. looking kinda mavericky to me at the moment

:eyes: