“What is motivating (Obama) primarily is ideology. And an
ideological opening. He doesn’t like the malefactors of great wealth. He
wants to “spread the wealth around.” Peggy Noonan
Anyone who dares to characterize Barack Obama as a leftist radical is heaped with scorn and outrage. Only crazy, hateful talk-show entertainers like Rush Limbaugh
stoop so low, but reasonable people do not listen anyway. Whether Obama
harbors socialist views is a valid topic for intellectual conversation,
but, other than errant bloggers (Is President Obama Truly a Socialist?), polite people avoid it.
Many moderate Republicans bought into the media narrative that Obama
is a centrist, who moves left only to placate his base. Were it not for
them, the true Obama would govern from the center, or tilt only ever so
slightly to the left.
Indeed, the carefully scripted Obama masterfully masqueraded as a
centrist during his two presidential campaigns, while governing from the
left. The complicit media characterized him as a softy, too ready to
yield to the obstructionist Republicans. But if the Left would only
“Watch what I do, not what I say,” Obama already delivered for them the
moon, and now wants the stars as well.
go to forbes.com
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