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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Have those issues been dealt with?
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I think it's rather more like "being dealt with." There are people who deal with these things. But they have a lot stacked against them.
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Is Obama a "social liberal"?
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I'm not sure how useful this questions is. For starters, I don't know Obama's politics on the individual level. I suppose I could look to his record as a senator. Even then, I'm not that steeped in American politics to know the significance of a senator's actions and whether he or she is acting as a liberal vs. a centrist.
Obama is the president, but he's also a member of the Democratic Party. It's my understanding that he needs the support of enough of his party to get things done. This is politics.
It's also my understanding that the Democratic Party as a whole comes across as largely centrist, or Third Way.
The upcoming election isn't about whether "the left" will lose out to the Republicans. It's a question of whether we'll see the erosion of the centre. This might spur the Democrats to adopt a more obvious Third Way tack like Clinton did when he lost the House to the Republicans midway through his first term after a failed attempt at passing health care reform. Sound familiar?
Clinton seemed to be more effective once he started co-opting Republican issues. Yay, centrism!
I think roachboy means this relative to the
actual left. Social democrats, for example.