Analysis: Obama moving to center on some issues

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/19/09 | Tom Raum - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – On both economic and national-security fronts, President Barack Obama is giving ground and crossing swords with political allies.

Caught in the worst economic downturn in generations, Obama has had to temper his stance on trade and lower his expectations for trimming charitable tax breaks for the wealthy and for taxing greenhouse-gas polluters.

He's not the first president to be pulled toward the political center after being elected. But the recession and two wars abroad put him in a particularly tough spot — with smaller margins for error.

With the deficit mushrooming, lawmakers in both parties are worrying more and more about rivers of government red ink. ..

[dartuser]

Horsepuckey

[US Navy Vet]

Would this mean Obambi is now a DINO!

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Analysis: AP is full of horse manure

[bushfamfan]

They can all crash and burn together. The media is deserving of all the problems they are having now. More karma to follow for their Precious.

[Winstons Julia]

Headline should be:

“Please buy into this crap...”

[Prospero]

Yeah, and if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a wagon.

[skyman]

A more correct headline would be:

“Analysis: Obama moving from extreme left to far left on some issues”

[ClearCase_guy]

Nationalizing banks -- mainstream
Nationalizing car companies -- centrist
Killing infants born alive -- everybody does it
Cozying up with Islamic terrorists -- this is what Middle America has been asking for.

Have I got this right?

[b4its2late]

[skyman]

A more correct headline would be:

“Analysis: Obama moving from extreme left to far left on some issues”

[EternalVigilance]

Obama moving to center

I have no doubt this is accurate.

Somewhere between Stalin and Mao.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Falling for Hussein’s deceptions.

[DoughtyOne]

I have noticed some rather strange decisions of Obama’s, as of late. I still don’t think they reveal him moving to the right. I think the guy is in over his head, and he’s having to back down on some of his more zani plans.

We shall see in time, but I’m withholding some judgments of this guy.

Now this, “’Afghanistan’ could well be Obama’s Vietnam, eventually,” said James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. You name it when it comes to military action, and it’s the next Vietnam to just about every University Professor.

The first Gulf War.
The current Iraq portion of the War on Terrorism.
Our actions in Afghanistan.

When are these loons going to update their play book?

[VRWCRick]

This article is a whole lot of BS - Barbra Streisand!

ObaMAO, centrist? Somebody is smoking funny weeds at AP, but that is nothing new!

[Force of Truth]

President Barack Obama is giving ground and crossing swords with political allies.

So he's dicking around, eh?

[Vaquero]

Yeah centrist marxist...

the bastage.

[a fool in paradise]

Buttociated Press serving up more American Pravda.

Maybe if your vantage point starts at Left and you see RINO Republicans as “Extreme right wing”, then the political football is moved Left (witness the 1968 New Democrats who now run the Party and the Media).

[griswold3]

Ain’t buying the propaganda. What I hear is , “I know we disagree about my agenda, but ‘I won’.”
Brack Alabama, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

[VeniVidiVici]

The crAP propping up their Savior.

[STE=Q]

“Obama moving to center on some issues”

I somehow find it extremely challenging to picture Obama in the ‘center’ of the political spectrum.

Obama makes Hillary Clinton, by comparison, seem conservative!

STE=Q

[rightwingcrazy]

Talking equally out of both sides of your mouth is not the same thing as moving toward the center.

[Canes101]

I was thinking a cross between Castro & HO Chi Ming,but I can see your point to.

[TurtleUp]

Have I got this right?

Nailed it. Obama is centrist only in the sense that he is midway between Hitler's national socialism and Stalin's soviet socialism. He's anti-American, anti-capitalist, and in every way in the center of what our media loves.

[GreatDaggar]

what a joke

what this is article is saying is that using common sense is moving to the center

not taxing charitable donations is moving to the center? my ass

[misterrob]

A) He wants to get reelected and also not have his party get crushed in the mid-terms

B) He cannot get all of the leftist votes he needs so he is willing to move on some issues

a pragmatic politician

which also means an unprincipled whore

[mrsmel]

Ha, I’m going to remember that one.

[OrioleFan]

Because Zero is getting better advice from Dick Cheney than Gaffe-o-matic Biden.

[indylindy]

It was rumoured this would be a ploy used in the near future.

[odin2008]

[tx_eggman]

Obama moving to center on some issues

Kinda like a turd rotates to the center of the bowl after the flush handle has been pulled.

[Faith]

Is this a joke?

[WOSG]

crAP.

[tillacum]

Wanna bet?

[SpinnerWebb]

Kinda like a turd rotates to the center of the bowl after the flush handle has been pulled.

Not so much for an "Upper Deck" though...