Posted on 03/10/2009 7:48:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama firmly resists ideological labels, but at the end of a private meeting with a group of moderate Democrats Tuesday afternoon he offered a statement of solidarity.
“I am a New Democrat,” he told the New Democrat Coalition, according to two sources at the White House session.
The group is comprised of centrist Democratic members of the House, who support free trade and a muscular foreign policy but are more moderate than the conservative Blue Dog coalition.
Obama made his comment in discussing his budget priorities and broader goals, also calling himself a “pro-growth Democrat” during the course of conversation.
White House officials stressed that Obama was not making any declarations, but rather pointing out that he was in sync with many of the group's principles.
The self-descriptions are striking, though, given Obama’s usual caution in being identified with any wing of his often-fractious party. He largely avoided the Democratic Leadership Council – the centrist group that Bill Clinton once led – and, with an eye on his national political standing, has always shied away from the liberal label, too.
As recently as last week, he steadfastly refused to define his governing philosophy.
Asked in an interview with the New York Times to describe if he was a liberal, socialist or progressive, Obama demurred.
“No, I’m not going to engage in that,” he said, before calling back the reporters later in the day to question why they would even ask if he is a socialist.
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More like the Newest Socialist leader to come to power.
lol. now he wants to be a moderate?
nobody is going to believe that he is is for free markets
“New Democrat.” So that’s what the kids are calling Marxism these days. How nice!
Comrades of old Bolsheviks.
communist
He was misunderstood.
He didn’t say “I am a new democrat”.
He said, “I am a NUDE democrat”.
As in, this emprah ain’t got no clothes on, bro.
Socialist/Marxist/Communist Democrats are not new. They’ve been the norm for some time.
I am whatever I say I am whenever I say it.
I, Obama, have spoken.
And spoken.
And spoken.
(But watch what I do, not what I say.)
He has no idea WHO he is.
I think Bambi realizes that people are getting scared and even some of his adherents are having to acknowledge that he meant the things he said (about redistributing income, for example). The fact that a reporter asked him if he was a socialist - and that he was so unnerved by the question he actually called the NY Times to “explain” himself - indicates to me that he realizes that he may have been a little too overt in his program.
“White House officials stressed that Obama was not making any declarations, but rather pointing out that he was in sync with many of the group’s principles.”
Lookee thare...”Obama” and “principles” in the same sentence.
I just heard Pres Harry Truman coming out of his grave!
First he’s walking around telling everyone he’s Abraham Lincoln, then FDR, then Ronald Reagan...well, whatever. Anyone else would have been sent off to the funny farm by now.
Thinking of the Who Song with the lyrics, “Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss”.
Yep, nowadays a new Democrat is a socialist or Marxist.
I think what he meant is “I am a New *Party* member”
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