Obama: Moderate or Liberal?
A lot has been said in recent months about Barack Obama’s ideology. Is he a moderate, or a (radical?) liberal. Or perhaps a pragmatic idealist (yes, those exist. Thomas Jefferson was one of them for instance)?
Although a lot has been said about this subject, this article at Commentary adds significantly to it nonetheless. It is well worth your time. The author clearly shows that, Obama may not be a far-leftist now, but he certainly was quite a radical progressive only a few years ago.
He constantly joined radical progressive organizations. His friends were all radicals, and he chose them on purpose. He decided to become a community organizer because he believed in radical leftist theories of society, and he joined Trinity Church because he was attracted to the highly political nature of it and its Rev. Wright.
The article is a good read. It makes clear that Obama is trying hide a lot, and – what fascinates me – that he was quite honest about how he approaches people, how he manipulates them, in his books and other writings (see for instance his autobiography; he’s very honest about ‘change’ and stuff like that in it; in using ‘change’ in general, not defined, in order to rally people to his cause).
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ROFL – I read the Commentary and I now know that Obama is a dirty smelly hippie Satanist.
I also now know that the lefty spectrum goes from liberal – prograssive – radical – Satanist. Are you sure this isn’t a Onion spoof?