Reply #105: If you compare to the Bushes, sure.

[John Agar]

I'm not sure he is any more "progressive" than Clinton, or Carter, however.

What are the yardsticks?

Clinton and Carter never proposed raising the age of Medicare eligibility, but the president apparently did (it's been widely reported, and has not been denied to my knowledge).

Of course, comparisons across decades are hard to quantify, and it seems that you didn't even try here.

I end up concluding that the OP this is some sort of gesture, directed to an ongoing "debate" which I know and care very little about.