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Seriously? Key into your browser "liberals disappointed Obama centrist"; here are a few: Washington Examiner, 2011" Senior adviser David Axelrod insisted to bloggers in a roundtable that Obama's views haven't shifted. "I give you, as God is my witness, my word that we have not had a repositioning discussion here," Axelrod said, according to a transcript posted by the Nation. "We have not talked about let's move three degrees to the right." In order to succeed, Obama needs to win back the independent voters who helped propel him into office in 2008 but have since left him in large part over his economic policies and inability to reverse the country's persistent high unemployment. "While he hasn't abandoned progressives, he's worked to embrace those from the reasonable right," said David Badash, a New York-based civil rights activist. "Going into 2012, rational Americans will all be focused on the same issue: jobs." New York Times, 2011: Mr. (Robert) Reich is not pleased by the president’s message of late. “By freezing federal salaries, by talking about deficits, by extending the Bush tax cuts, he’s legitimizing a Republican narrative,” Mr. Reich says. “Why won’t he tell the alternative story? For three decades we’ve cut taxes on the wealthy while real wages stood still.” Mr. Obama’s liberal economics critics include Nobel Prize winners, Paul R. Krugman, the Princeton professor and columnist for The New York Times, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Columbia professor who served as chairman of Mr. Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors. Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at M.I.T., once advised liberals to stop blaming Mr. Obama’s advisers for pushing policies too friendly to Wall Street — the president makes those decisions. Mr. Reich served as labor secretary for President Clinton, and in his latest book “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future” he applauds Mr. Obama for deft work in preventing the economy from toppling into a Depression. But the president demanded too little of the bankers he saved, Mr. Reich says, and he conflated a rising stock market and soaring corporate profits with an improving economy. The Guardian, 2019: Would it be uncouth to say that Obama has become … a centrist dad? Who lectures people with extremely mundane, unsolicited opinions? Here are some past examples: 1. When he told Black Lives Matter to stop yelling - In 2016, Obama met young people in Europe and was asked whether his administration had gone far enough in tackling racial profiling. Instead of answering the question, Obama turned his attention towards the Black Lives Matter movement. “Once you’ve highlighted an issue and brought it to people’s attention … then you can’t just keep on yelling at them,” Obama said. And so, the president who ran on a campaign promising people “Yes, we can” was using his platform to criticize a campaign group working to highlight how routinely American police shoot and kill unarmed black men. 2. When he complained about woke culture - When Obama took the stage to talk down to young people in October, it was almost too easy to agree with him. The world is messy, he said, so we should be more careful about our tendency to “cancel” people online – especially if our judgment is replacing real action. Which all sounds fair enough. But then came his central message: that change is incremental. “We can’t completely remake society in a minute. This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke … you should get over that quickly,” he said. There is a term for older people who benefitted from the boom and are now criticising young people for wanting change too quickly, and I think it’s: OK, boomer. 3. When he said America was not ready for real change - In November, Obama – who now has a net worth of $70m – stood up in front of a room of similarly wealthy people to reassure them that the system doesn’t need to be radically changed. “Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality,” Obama said at the annual Democracy Alliance meeting, attended by wealthy liberal donors. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.” Perhaps Americans wanting radical change should re-think their approach. Get ready to lean in to good health insurance, everybody! 4. When he bragged about helping oil companies - At a Rice University gala in 2018, Obama took credit for the oil and gas boom in America. “It went up every year I was president. Suddenly America’s the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas. That was me, people, say thank you,” he said. Oil production grew 88% under Obama’s two terms. The US is also one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels, and the planet is literally burning – so this is not exactly something to be proud of, but credit where credit is due, I guess. 5. When he said he’d stand up to stop Sanders - Obama has said he would support any Democratic nominee for president in 2020. But judging by a Politico report from November, he doesn’t include Bernie Sanders in that list. The piece quoted close sources to him who said that Obama has refrained from speaking out against Bernie so far because Sanders doesn’t look like a credible threat. But privately, Politico reported, Obama has vowed to “speak up to stop him” if it looks like Sanders has a proper shot at winning the nomination. This is why Obama isn't even mentioned by the radicals in the street today; they view him as a total sell-out.