What would you call a candidate with the following interest group ratings, among others: Posted on 07/31/2007 5:28:55 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
What would you call a candidate with the following interest group ratings, among others:
Again, what would you call such a candidate? Well, if he's Barack Obama, and you're Richard Wolffe, you'd call him a "centrist."
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Wolffe is Newsweek’s Senior White House Correspondent. The Keith Olbermann fave turned up on "Morning Joe" today to discuss his Newsweek story on the Hillary-Obama dust-up. Wolffe argues that experience in presidential candidates is generally over-rated and that Hillary's in particular isnt all it's played up to be. He observes that whereas Hillary touts the number of countries she's visited, Laura Bush has also visited 68 countries and no on is mentioning her name as a potential Commander-in-Chief.
Wolffe certainly seems to have something for Obama. Not only did he downplay Hillary's experience, he also categorized the Illinois senator's politics this way:
He's basically a centrist politician. He's annoyed the teachers union. He went to Detroit and annoyed the car industry. But [his record of opposing] the war gives him a lot of cover to take very centrist positions.
It's true that Obama did express support for merit pay, anathema to the teachers unions. But he has otherwise toed the teachers' line, as reflected in his 100% NEA rating. And when it comes to annoying the car industry, he did so from the left. An article in Wolffe's own Newsweek noted that Obama:
castigat[ed] Motown's big wheels for driving our dependence on foreign oil. "For years, while foreign competitors were investing in more fuel-efficient technology for their vehicles, American automakers were spending their time investing in bigger, faster cars," Obama told an audience stunned into silence after greeting him with a standing ovation."Whenever an attempt was made to raise our fuel efficiency standards, the auto companies would lobby furiously against it, spending millions to prevent the very reform that could've saved their industry. Even as they've shed thousands of jobs and billions in profits over the last few years, they've continued to reward failure with lucrative bonuses for CEOs."How does that make Obama a centrist?
Obama-the-centrist ping to Today show list.
The Dem candidate is always called a centrist by the media.
Obama is a centrist from the center of hell, perhaps?
Maybe he means that Obama isn’t an extreme far left or a mushy far left but right in the center of the far left?
The media live in an ego-centric universe. They view themselves as the mainstream, so when a politician holds the same 100% leftist views that they do, he’s considered to be a centrist.
I’ve got a really creepy feeling about Obama-Jama. And here it is: He joins the ticket with Hillary; and Senator Clinton, I fear, is a very strong cnadidate in 2008.
I hope someone on the GOP side, like FDT, can defeat these folks.
Thoughts?
The trick is to move the center so far left that a true centrist seems like a far right winger..........
There’s DDT and FDT. Both can get rid of unwanted parasites........
Wolfe is a total buffoon. Last night he was interviewing one of the two liberals that said we were making progress in Iraq. Wolfey was totally befuddled by this and was asking the most inane, unprofessional, and emotional questions his little mind could dream up.
Centrist? Did you know that Chuck Schumer considers himself to be in the “Mainstream” of America. Go figure these guys.
And Obama is not one of the two Senators representing Illinois.
Delusional or just a flat out liar, hope for ethics sake that Wolffe is just delusional.
It is why we get stuck with so many RINOs who used to be officially Democrat.
Hah! That's funny. He "annoyed" the teacher's union. How? Ask them to teach?
a democrap “centrist” is
any socialist or communist that’s
currently running for office
and needs the convenience of a polite name—centrist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“He joins the ticket with Hillary; and Senator Clinton, I fear, is a very strong candidate in 2008.”
I think they’ll self-destruct long before. Its not wise to sell them short but its certainly not a shoo-in.
Bingo.
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