Obama, the Social Liberal, Governs as a Socially Moderate

I Have to Cry

Progressives seem to hate the status quo. It seems generally that is because they have lacked the personal discipline outside of politics to find their place in the status quo. They want to progress to something different without fully understanding WHAT it is they want to progress to. Passengers in the back seat daydreaming and sleeping on a long anticipated road trip may find themselves awakened screaming as the driver heads the car over a cliff. These passengers have no control and have aquiesed their lives in faith of the driver. Now to change the fundamentals of our nation and that from which it was founded, that which lead to the most successful free republic in world history and to which at the current time millions of people dream of immigrating, to undergo a new direction should draw pause and scrutiny. Where do you sleepy passengers think we are going? Utopia? When the free market has been broken and the government controls your housing, food, energy, job and health, how will you be free? A group of faceless unaccountable people from behind closed doors will tell you how you will live every aspect of your lives or else? Think this is melodramatic? Impossible? Even the Russians and Chinese are begging us not to go the direction that the new administration is taking us. They know it won't work. Find a successful example of socialism in the world that has not rendered its citizens a miserable existence. This is what you guys in the back seat are championing. No? Well then go back to sleep, daydream...let the Obama administration keep driving because I assure you that you are in for a rude awakening. You really don't understand how everything works do you? You just want to hold your hand out and have someone put stuff in it for you. Remind yourself that once headed over the cliff it's too late. I just wish that you had not tied me and my family up in the trunk. We didn't wan't to go with you.

so "quietly" means not a radical leftist?

Hardy har har!

I Have to Laugh!

I have recognized the president as a slightly left of center moderate right from the beginning, and I am totally without a degree in political science. However, I have observed the far right, waiting with bated breaths to attack his every statement, his every decision and his every move. They have labeled him a Socialist, a Communist, a Terroist, A Foreign National and called him everything but a White Man, if you'll forgive the joke. I have truly never heard such right wing hysteria and hatred, since clear back in the day when school bussing became an issue across the country.

If Obama disappoints the radical left as well as the radical right, more power to him. It's time we had some sanity, some balance and reason, and a voice for those of us in the boringly moderate middle. I love Barack Obama. Even when I don't agree with him, I know he's not a crazy man, nor any of the epithets listed above.

Hey

do you not know that America elected the most liberal president that it COULD elect in a post 9/11 mindset AND in a recession? Did you think you were going to get Dennis Kucinich past voters? (No disrespect intended. I LIKE Rep. Kucinich.)

Obama is plenty liberal enough for our times. SOME of the far left agenda, though, is best suited to the second term, so that there IS a second term.