Posted on 08/10/2012 8:50:31 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Liberals upset with Barack Obama's few compromises with the GOP have a new moniker for the president many consider the most left ever: "Deeply conservative."
Academics and liberal pundits have started talking about Obama as right-of-center politically just as he has begun to reach out to independents and moderates in his reelection campaign.
Some are true critics who wish he would do more for labor and welfare recipients and implement tougher carbon limits on coal plants. Others are trying to portray Obama as a middle-of-of-the-roader attractive to moderate voters, not the liberal Mitt Romney attacks daily.
The latest claim that Obama's a conservative is being made by pundit Paul Street and University of Illinois political professor Anthony DiMaggio in a long review of the Tea Party in the influential journal Critical Sociology. In it they call Obama "deeply conservative" and eager enough for victories that he "caves in" to the GOP.
"Obama cannot stop readily accommodating," they write. "We are familiar by now with the standard liberal defense. The president, an all to persistent story line goes, is a progressive, left-leaning man of liberal instincts boxed in by cra-a-a-zy Tea Partiers who 'took over the Republican Party' and left him no choice but to shift rightward to get something done. This narrative ought to be understood as embarrassing and nonsensical," the duo wrote in the latest edition.
They also called him "supposedly liberal" and "center-right," prompting one longtime conservative activist to compare efforts to paint Obama as a conservative to former President Bill Clinton's rush to the political middle in order to win reelection.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Next up...”He’s Calvin Coolidge reincarnated”
SO WHY IS HE WANTING ANAL SEX PARTNERS TO MARRY , as if they’re normal and we should base special rights for how one has their sexual get off?
He’s just moving the political scale to impress upon Americans the falicy that conservatism is just to the right of communism as to attempt to shift the political scale way to the left.....and it’s working.
Oh, brother. Consider the source. From the point of view of Critical Sociology 0bama probably is conservative. And so are Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky.
obozo now a conservative?? analogy to this claim: when the dems realize obozo’s skin color is no longer influenctual, their propaganda will claim he is white
Is that where we're going? {shudder}
The sad truth is Obama is as conservative as Willard. Both are pro homos, illegal invaders, mooches and looters , and socialized medicine America’s future it totalanarism the only choice this year is Marxism or fascism.
Obama’s a conservative
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Of course he is...
Just like Willard...
theyre both SEVERELY CONSERVATIVE...
Obama is as conservative as a Stalinist can pretend to be. There are a lot of fools helping him pretend.
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