Set aside the narrative, step back a bit, and look at him objectively, and he pretty much is a conservative. Is Obama really that much different than McCain or Romney? Really? Let’s see. What’s he done to qualify as a liberal? Has he pulled our troops out of all the foreign wars they’re entangled in? Nope. Has he shut down Gitmo? Nope. Has he reversed any of the Bush administration’s attacks on our freedoms (Patriot Act, wiretapping, etc.)? Hell no. Has he done anything to alleviate the rapidly expanding income inequality in this country? You wish.What’s the most “liberal” thing Obama’s done? A health-care plan, based on the work of Romney and other Republicans, which relies on for-profit insurance corporations who are only slightly more ethical than the Mafia in order for it to work, instead of a single-payer system like every other civilized country on Earth, making it by far the furthest-right-leaning health care plan in the first world?He’s a conservative. And a huge disappointment.
Set aside the narrative, step back a bit, and look at him objectively, and he pretty much is a conservative. Is Obama really that much different than McCain or Romney? Really? Let’s see. What’s he done to qualify as a liberal? Has he pulled our troops out of all the foreign wars they’re entangled in? Nope. Has he shut down Gitmo? Nope. Has he reversed any of the Bush administration’s attacks on our freedoms (Patriot Act, wiretapping, etc.)? Hell no. Has he done anything to alleviate the rapidly expanding income inequality in this country? You wish.What’s the most “liberal” thing Obama’s done? A health-care plan, based on the work of Romney and other Republicans, which relies on for-profit insurance corporations who are only slightly more ethical than the Mafia in order for it to work, instead of a single-payer system like every other civilized country on Earth, making it by far the furthest-right-leaning health care plan in the first world?He’s a conservative. And a huge disappointment.