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The Spectacle Blog
I missed this from Matt Bai of the New York Times two days ago:
Privately, Mr. Obama has described himself, at times, as essentially a Blue Dog Democrat, referring to the shrinking caucus of fiscally conservative members of the party.
Oh really? Hard to reconcile with this (emphasis mine):
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I mean, the problem with labels is everybody thinks they mean different things. So I would define myself as a strong progressive in the sense that…[some qualifiers follow].
In other words, Obama is comfortable saying just about anything in private. The question is about what he’ll do, and Bai suggests that when it comes to the debt and the deficit commission’s recommendations, there’s no telling what Obama will do. There may be some uncertainty, but one thing for sure is that Obama’s decision-making on the debt won’t be shaped by a “sense of betrayal on the left…so intense that he could conceivably draw a primary challenge over it in 2012.” If Obama’s already committed to triangulation in order to defeat a Republican in 2012, there’s no way he’s going to worry about the threat of a harmless primary from the left.
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Dixie Pixie| 12.2.10 @ 10:46AM
Obama a “Blue Dog” fiscally conservative????
That does not compute.
To misquote Lieutenant Worf:
Obama must think us a fool to make his lies so transparent!!!!
matthew s harrison| 12.2.10 @ 11:14AM
Obama said that strategically, in front of some hack from the old gray prostitute, so that it would get printed.
This is more obama propaganda/subterfuge to keep the useful idiots(lefty voters and media) under his thumb and nothing more.
It is terribly funny, and sad all at once, that these "journalists" take everything obama says seriously and as honest statements, and don't realize that this man owns them. He is the master, they are the slaves.
The intellectual elite are certainly easy to get over on-which just goes to show you that old bernie madoff was in the right place to make the maximum returns-in the middle of the east coast lefty elite social network of idiots who somehow have convinced themselves that a degree from an ivy, made them intellectual over-night.
I love it-I really do.
Ed| 12.2.10 @ 12:00PM
I agree with Dixie Pixie; Obama is a disciple of Dr. Goebbels. "If you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it."
I suspect Lt. Worf would have a few more choice words to describe our Fearless Leader.
Dixie Pixie| 12.2.10 @ 1:21PM
Klingon’s are a warrior race with a strict code of honor.
A greater contrast with Obama and his drones can not be drawn.
Obama has never shown the slightest sense of honor and lives in a fog of deception.
He is the opposite of a Klingon.