Obama The Moderate Conservative

[cieldumort]

Fiscal Times:
Barack Obama: The Democrat's Richard Nixon
Here are a few examples of Obama's effective conservatism:

• His stimulus bill was half the size that his advisers thought necessary;
• He continued Bush’s war and national security policies without change and even retained Bush’s defense secretary;
• He put forward a health plan almost identical to

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[eruditeviking]

He just agreed to an up or down vote on the "cut, cap, and balance" bullshit.

We're it not for how bad the opposition field is, I'd just assume let someone from the left challenge him. But at this point we cannot afford to have any of those nut jobs in the white house.

I knew Obama was a moderate going into this. What I didn't foresee was that he lacked any backbone or initiative to get shit done.

[cieldumort]

1 whole comment lol - LJ is truly on life support ;-)

I also knew Obama was going to act rather moderately once in office. What I didn't expect was that he would act rather moderately conservative.