Posted on 11/25/2008 7:59:38 AM PST by pissant
The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne asks Obama advisers whether his appointments herald a shift to the center and is told that the answer is No:
Obama's selection of a team of highly skilled pragmatists has already been described as a move to the political center, but Obama advisers and longtime acquaintances say that this is a misreading of the incoming president and his approach. They describe it as combining a practicality about means with an overriding concern about the corrosive effects of growing economic inequalities...
Washington often divides the Democratic policy world between progressives and pragmatists. With Obama, as yesterday's news conference showed, it will have to become accustomed to a president who is both.
This goes to the heart of the debate that's taking shape among liberal writers over Obama's first moves. Do Obama's appointments constitute a betrayal of liberals, as Chris Bowers argues? Or is Obama merely assembling a team of experienced hands in order to implement his own progressive vision, as Matthew Yglesias contends?
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The GOOD news is, if they are denying he is “moving to the center” then they are finally ADMITTING that he is on the left.
The first step is admitting you have a problem, right?
;^)
Don’t worry - he’a still that zany leftist that we all knew and loved
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to pin a “liberal” down to admit that they are indeed socialists.
It’s infuriating that they will not admit it,
even when 0bama’s campaign HQs have Che flags and people come to post election rallies with Soviet flags -
no, those people don’t ally with 0bama because he has the same ideology... no... can’t be.
i see a problem here. i see some type of pseudo-administration and it’s Chief-in-Charge has not been vetted properly and it’s looking like he’s in total denial of what his real circumstances are.
the other problem i see are “appointments” too specifically tailored or too “off the wall”(e.g.,who’s this?)for this future non-event that uh-uh wants to implement....is it possible that he realizes the gravity of his situation and is putting people in place for someone else so these individuals will not be working for him specifically but his alternate?
He’s running away from the center. He lied to voters.
LIE LIE LIE.
We told you so.
Good!
That means Hussein will be just that much easier to beat come 2012...
just like Carter, he’ll be “one & done!”
Actually taxpayer subsidized Pacifica Radio finds Obambi to the RIGHT of the Center in their worldview. Nader is moderate, Hugo Chavez is center-left...
We can thank Jimmy Carter for the messes we face in the Middle East today. When the damage he’s done be “done”?
Just the fact that they have to say it to mollify the nut roots is an indication that 0 just discovered that most of what he promised isn’t going to happen.
That two-letter reply may cause the markets to drop a even bit more...
Go for it, Barry.
The more you govern from the left, the better our chances of whipping you in 2012.
“He’s Not Moving To The Center” = He’s Moving To The Center.
Yea, well as much as I liked Reagan; he screwed up too when there was no retaliation for the 1983 muzzie bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
Heck, America has been fighting the muzzies since the Barbary Pirates! And Christians have been fighting them for a thousand years! Sooner or later, we are gonna have to give them the jihad they so desperately want!
“Invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
Ann Coulter
I think Fabian Marxist describes him well enough. (However much some of us may be tempted to label him a Fabian Stalinist!) He’s got the full commu-authoritarian ideology, but his plan is to sneak it in no quicker than the dazed and confused electorate will allow.
Obama doesn’t need to move to the center. You bring the mountain to Mohammed. The political center will be redefined to establish new goal posts.
Obama is in the center, Stalin is on the Left, and Chafee is on the extreme far right.
Who was it that said we get the government we deserve? I hope all of the "purists" who on principle refused to vote for McCain are proud of themselves; they certainly helped Ubama take power.
Get set, America; we're in for a rough ride.
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