Is Pres. Obama Too Conservative? Not Liberal Enough? Truth Is, He’s Just Right

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Social programs, according to the Right, are ‘immoral’—they redistribute resources that belong to those with more to those with less—against their will. The more one advocates for social programs, at the expense of ‘free market’ forces, the more redistribution is required–the more one is derogatorily referred to as Liberal.

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Along came the Tea Party and Republican politics radicalized, threatened, lied, obstructed, obfuscate issues, and interjected God into the equation, who told Republicans to abandon healthcare and now SNAP (Food Stamps) because ‘He’ wants Americans with less opportunity to suffer and go hungry.snip

While you can never make both the extremes happy, President Obama was instrumental in having unemployment benefits extended during this last recession to 2 years to help the long-term unemployed. The government supplemented individual healthcare costs for those un/under employed, when they could get it. The President expanded SNAP for which he has taken enormous heat. Of course, for advocating and adopting these policies, along with the ACA, the President was referred to as a ‘socialist’ by the Right. The far leaning left (the real socialists) and the Green Party decried of the President, he is just another politician for using SuperPac money, and that his programs don’t go far enough.

Nate Silver wrote, in response to the earlier piece by Ezra Klein: “It’s fairly easy to demonstrate that Mr. Obama’s policy preferences resemble those of a typical Democrat in today’s Congress…There is a system by which political scientists rate member of Congress from a scale of negative 1 very liberal to positive 1 very conservative. According to this system of rating “Mr. Obama’s score of -0.399 was very close to the average, splitting the difference between his party’s liberal and moderate wings. He typically leaves some room to his left…Mr. Obama’s positions are also broadly in line with the median Democratic voter. According to polling conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, 70 percent of Democrats think Mr. Obama’s positions are “about right”, and those who disagreed were about as likely to say he was too conservative (12 percent) as too liberal (14 percent).”

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http://www.occupydemocrats.com/president-obama-liberal-conservative/

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