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Obama is the most liberal President since FDR.
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Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Truman were more liberal then Obama?
I mean really, Obama has been in office for all of what 10 months and people are already calling him the next coming of full on principle liberalism? I mean really, does anyone remember the first two years of Clinton? I mean really remember it? HillaryCare and Assault Weapons Ban ring a bell? Believe me if it weren't for the Republican Revolution the 8 years of Clinton would've had a different tune.
I wasn't alive then. My point is that Obama, percieved by reports, is liberal. I'm not saying that the man is the new representation of liberalism or the "Hard left", but he certainly is a liberal.
As for Clinton, he was definitely left-leaning, but only when the Democrats controlled Congress. He increasingly moved to the center afterwards shaped his presidency to be defined as moderate. I have no qualms in saying that he wasn't so much as a centrist, just pragmatic.
Obama, as hard as it for some people to swallow, is also a pragmatist. Of course he won't go to the centre because at the worst the Democrats lose the House and Senate in 2012 (they have way too many seats in the Senate to lose it by 2010). Sure he may have come across as an ideaologue while campaigning and such but I think that is due to him being from blue state Illinois and not from somewhere like say Arkansas. If Obama had the same Congress as Clinton did it wouldn't surprise me one
bit if he would act the same way.
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