“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” the Illinois Democrat wrote in “The Audacity of Hope,” a memoir published last year. “Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal.”
Obama has a 95 percent liberal rating from Americans for Democratic Reform, a liberal advocacy group that ranks all members of Congress. Yet he is often portrayed as a centrist.
“His record is liberal, and his rhetoric is moderate,” explained Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
+ Stalin isn't such a bad guy.
+ Hitler isn't such a bad guy.
+ Mao isn't such a bad guy.
+ Castro isn't such a bad guy.
+ Saddam Hussein isn't such a bad guy.
+ Global cooling is going to kill us all.
+ Tax cuts cause financial harm to American families.
+ The oil will run dry in
+ An oil pipeline will decimate the caribou herd in Alaska.
+ Acid rain is going to kill us all.
+ 9/11 was caused by U.S. foreign policy, not terrorists who hijacked planes and flew them into skyscrapers.
+ Hugo Chavez isn't such a bad guy.
+ Iran can have nuclear weapons because we have them.
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2 comments:
Pope Don, I don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting you!
I'm Pope John Paul. I was the victim of a conspiracy. Elvis and me are jamming in a basement flat in London.
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