He’s Delusional!
He’s not delusional. He is a stupid SOB, and a liar, but knows exactly what he is doing.
“He’s Delusional!”
Not quite. Most the rest of the world is significantly to the left of us. In Europe the massive welfare state is the status quo. Anyone who would suggest dismantling the welfare state would be labeled an extremist. As far as I know no elected British Tories are in favor of abolishing the health service. Berry paying lip service to capitalism and pretending to be against gay marriage would lead most Europeans to consider him right of center (they believe what he says), their leftists openly admit they are socialists. The President of France whom many freepers are fond is no more conservative than Obama. (France is about the worst in Western Europe). I knew this Aussie online many years ago. He called the democrats (this was around 2001) “center, very center, maybe slightly right”.
Bill Clinton signed welfare reform so Europe considered him right of center.
It’s actually the populations of all the countries who’s “right” is on many issues on a par with or to the left of our left that are delusional. Anyone to the right of Cynthia McKinney won’t be labeled a lefty by most Europeans. What we would call the economic right is almost nonexistent in some countries and their regular old left is our crazy McKinney moonbat left or open communists like in Portugal.
“The left” party in Germany is the descendant of the ruling communist party of East Germany. (it finally merged with the craziest West German party a few years ago).
I took a British political survey once and it showed that 0.7% percent of takers were as pro-free market as me.
http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/
I don’t think Obama was hallucinating when he heard Sark or one his other “center right” CINO buddies tell him he’d be a conservative in their crappy country. Obama would actually fit in fine with the French “conservatives” (actually they are Gaulists.)
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
http://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart
Look at those charts. That’s REALLY what a lot of people think. Obama and every EU government right of center. Including Spain and the tragedy called Portugal.
Obama’s goal is to move us to the European political spectrum where he technically is right of center. We must not let that happen.