Posted on 08/01/2007 10:45:43 AM PDT by zorroplata
Obama a "centrist"? Though Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama earns zero ratings from conservative groups and 100 percent ratings from liberal groups for his Senate votes, Tuesday morning on MSNBC, Newsweek Senior White House correspondent Richard Wolffe declared: "He's basically a centrist politician."
He must not have "annoyed" the National Education Association very much since in 2005 the union for teachers rated Obama's votes as 100 percent in their interest. And the only way he's "annoyed" the car industry is from the left by advocating ever-higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.
Mark Finkelstein, a blogger on the MRC's NewsBusters blog, caught Wolffe's claim and, citing Project Vote Smart's compilation of ratings from interest groups, listed some ratings from liberal and conservative groups which demonstrate Obama is far from a "centrist." Finkelstein's Tuesday morning NewsBusters post: newsbusters.org
100% from Planned Parenthood 100% from NARAL 0% from the Illinois Association for Right to Life 0% from Americans for Tax Reform 100% from the NAACP 8% from the American Conservative Union 100% from the NEA [teachers union] 100% from Children's Defense Fund [Hillary's old group] 100% from NOW 88% from the American Immigration Lawyers Association 0% from the Federation for American Immigration Reform 100% from the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees 100% from Americans for Democratic Action [gold-standard of old lefty groups] 0% from NRA 'A' from Illinois Citizens for Handgun Control If that makes one a "centrist," Wolffe is very far to the left.
I guess Newsweek considers Chavez a moderate?
Go to your bookstore,accidently shake out the subscription card litter and drop them in the mail box.
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Centrist. Sure. He’s right smack dab in the center between Hillary and Stalin.
Centrist? Centrist? Seriously now. Are we on “Candid Camera”?
If only someone could compell a jerk like this fool woolf to defend that stupid statement.
Richard Wolffe’s ‘center’ point is on the far left. As with so many other rabid leftists, he considers his own views the norm, so anyone at all to the ‘right’ of them ala Joe Lieberman is already considered extremely conservative. Anyone to the right of Lieberman, well now we’re in lunatic territory. /s
It’s the same distorting lens with which most MSM hacks view the political world.
This reminds me of when the editorial staff of The Oregonian called Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer “moderates”.
When evaluated on the black politician grading curve, along with the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, etc. - Obama could be considered something close to a centrist.
Liberals are ideologically incapable of viewing a person independent of their melanin content.
Someone has a Medicinal Marajuana perscription at Newweek.
or
Perhaps he got into Obama’s cociane stash.
ANY politician who PUBLICLY RECITES COMMUNIST DOGMA AS A GOOD THING is NOT a centrist. NO WAY NO HOW.
This must have been a paid article.
Richard Wolffe is a true dyed in the wool liberal. Check him out on Olbermann’s show or read his column in Newsweek.
Richard Wolffe is a true dyed in the wool liberal. Check him out on Olbermann’s show or read his column in Newsweek.
Well we all know not to believe anything coming from anyone associated with Newsweek, but so too I’ll not believe anything coming out of the media research center either cause if it is like this it is B.S.
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