Political Climate

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Obama is a liberal. The idea that he isnt a liberal or acting as a "real" liberal is promoted because the far left is stomping thier feet. But he is a politician before he is a liberal and even he realizes that a lot of stuff that the radicals want simply will kill his reelection (not that what he has done isnt already doing it) chances. Not to mention that despite the coronation he is not a King and cant just wave his magic wand and make things happen or go away. The beauty of our system of government is the checks and balances that dont allow one man agenda's to be imposed. But seriously he is pro union, pro taxes, pro climate change, pro healthcare reform, anti business, pro abortion, pro gay rights, pro big govt, antiwar(despite his actions on the wars which he correctly knows he has to do), pro ACLU...I mean what anti liberal stance has he ever taken outside of the troop surge that he tried to appease liberals by announcing the date of the withdrawl before retracting it. As far as the economic stuff he is clueless about what to do and obviously just goes along with what his guys want.

Other than the last sentence, which I'll just pass on, I really can't disagree with what you wrote. The point of contention with Liberals is that he hasn't put the focus on the social liberal issues as much as "we" would like. That is understandable based on what this country was like when he took office, and seriously not a Bush blame here at all...sh*t happens...but, if he has to move to the Center, or even to the right to get things done, I much prefer it be over economic topics than social ones.