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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
How long ago was that? I think I may have missed it.
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Post #30 from "Obama at House Republican retreat" thread.
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Originally Posted by dippin View Post
What part of Obama's rhetoric during the campaign was "far left?" The part where he said that he didn't support gay marriage? The part where he said that at most top income brackets would be paying what they paid in taxes under Clinton? The part where he said he would continue and expand the war in Afghanistan? A health care reform that never once was said to be single payer? What, exactly, were his far left promises during the campaign?
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I don't know how to answer your question without asking one. Given Palin, Huckabee, Bush, McCain, Clinton, Obama, Kucinich, from right to left that is how I would rank them. How would you rank them?
In addition I would say Bush, McCain and Clinton are more or less in the center. I have written many times that I thought McCain and Romney were far to "political" for my tastes and that they lacked conviction. I supported Huckabee and only decided to vote for McCain because of Palin otherwise I would have did a protest vote for the Libertarian. I call-out Republicans when I don't trust them. I trust (not agree with) Clinton and Kucinich If you have been reading my views you would know that, in fact in a race between Clinton and McCain, I would have voted for Clinton, I wrote that several times also.
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Originally Posted by dippin
The attempt to rewrite history is so obvious...
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I am not trying to and I can not rewrite history.
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If one really feels that Obama is a major interventionist, and that the government is meddling "too much" in the economy, the obvious comparison would be FDR, not Hoover. But FDR is still a popular president, so that would be a bad political move for the republicans. So what do you do? Reinvent history in order to force a parallel with an unpopular president instead of a popular one.
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I recall discussions on FDR, the New Deal and its impact on the Depression. As usual ther was disagreement. I do not believe New Deal policies lead to the end of the Depression. FDR's New Deal would fall under my general view that our economy can not be micro-managed and that government often does more harm than good due to the unintended consequences and the fact that government is less efficient at allocating capital and resources than the "free market."
I am interested in understanding what you think the future impact of Obama's policies will be. I fear there will be similarities with Hoover, I actually hope I am wrong. I also, understand that the psychological impact of Obama can have a bigger impact than his actual policies. I think to a degree Reagan benefited from that.