Barack Obama is a Liberal Republican

[KoKo]

I have been having fun mocking friends and family on both sides of the political aisle. GOP colleagues who keep telling me BHO is a Socialist, while Dems think he is the next JFK.

I enjoy disabusing them of their political biases by explaining to them Barack Obama’s actual politics.

Politically, he is a modern day Richard Nixon. I don’t mean the Watergate, thing, I mean his budgets, policies and relations with the two parties.

Sure, he is Pro-Choice, and is also pro Gay Marriage rights. But look at his actual track record:

• He extended Bush TARP;

• Like W, he refused to prosecute banks;

• He made 98% of the Bush cuts permanent;

• When Unions were under attack by various GOP governors, he mostly stayed silent.

• Oh, and he forced GM into prepackaged bankruptcy;

• His healthcare plan was a national version of RomneyCare, created by a conservative GOP ThinkTank;

• He continues to engage in a long distance war that he promised to end

• He was willing to throw Social Security under the bus at a moment’s notice

• His stimulus plan consisted mostly of temporary tax cuts and unemployment benefit extensions, not true Keynesian stimulus (infrastructure, defense, etc.)

• He keeps trying desperately to cut a deal with GOP members

I am not saying any of these things are good or bad — its merely an observation.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/

[babylonsister]

1. Yea, he sucks. nt

[KoKo]

4. I don't think this article says "He Sucks" at ALL...you are misrepresenting this Good Read.

Come on "babylonsister" ...we've been here on this site as Democrats since Beginning...

Please read the article and post after that.

[RedstDem]

2. Hammer!

meet nail......

[Sherman A1]

3. Yup,

and always has been one.

[KoKo]

5. I'll take your WORDS to Heart...."BE KIND." n/t

[pscot]

6. I do miss the unrecc feature

[66 dmhlt]

14. Amen!

[MotherPetrie]

7. K&R

[bananas]

8. Obama described himself as a "moderate Republican"

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/obama-considered-moderate-republican-1980s/story?id=17973080

Obama: More Moderate Republican Than Socialist
By JORDAN FABIAN (@Jordanfabian)
Dec. 14, 2012

President Barack Obama believes that if he were president 25 years ago, his economic policies would make him a moderate Republican.

During an interview with Noticias Univision 23, the network's Miami affiliate newscast, Obama pushed back against the accusation made in some corners of south Florida's Cuban-American and Venezuelan communities that he wants to instill a socialist economic system in the U.S. The president said he believes few actually believe that.

"I don't know that there are a lot of Cubans or Venezuelans, Americans who believe that," Obama said. "The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican."

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[Redfairen]

9. Does that make everyone here an Obamacan?

I voted for him. How 'bout you?

[KoKo]

10. Absolutely...I HAD to VOTE FOR OBAMA...Supreme Court and all that......

The alternative was hugely GRIM. What else could we do?

BUT...HE WON...Now's the time to "Hold his Feet to the Fire!" Ya' THINK?

But, I did want to write in Jill Stein and Greens.......but...I did my Dem Duty. Still couldn't carry it...but, I did try as did many others in my State.

[rhett o rick]

11. Yes, yes but he is better than Rmoney or Mussolini. nm

[AverageJoe90]

12. Obama is really more like Eisenhower than Nixon.

C'mon, man, Nixon was an incompetent dope who ditzed his way thru DC for 6 whole years. Eisenhower was the REAL good Republican.

[bemildred]

13. Yes, Eisenhower, Nixon is ludicrous, although Obama's choice was Lincoln. nt

[OccupyManny]

15. I love BHO

Except that he didn't prosecute Bush. My theory as to why Bush has not been heard from in 4 years is that BHO told him to keep his criminal mouth shut or he will go to jail.

I still hold out hope that we will see a frog marching of Bush and all his banking cronies that nearly ruined out country.