terming him as a radical liberal is fucked up and hurts him in the polls and ultimately the final vote
in todays political world obama might be considered "radical" based on where he stands compared to where the rest of politicians stand...
BUT
lets put obama in the context of HISTORY ITSELF.... where does he fit in on the scale of ideaology then ? he is far from 'radical" my friend. in fact id say he is the closest thing to being completely OBJECTIVE that any country any where in any time has ever had as a leader...
I have no idea where you came up with your world scale, or what "objective" is supposed to mean within a political context. The only context we can discuss this in is within this country as right and left ideologies are greatly skewed in other parts of the world.
Obama is easily one of the most leftwing candidates the Democrats have run in some time, which is saying a lot when you consider this is the party that ran their version of a war hero last time, which consisted of picking a guy who spent most of the Vietnam war calling his brethren criminals. We know for a fact that the church Obama grew up in and identifies with believes in the worst kind of leftwing whites-are-out-to-get-us ideology. We know his wife hasn't found anything to be proud about this country until Obama ran for president.
His voting record in the senate was almost always to the far left of most Americans, even on the issue of abortion. In April 2002, he voted against a bill to protect babies born alive after a failed abortion procedure. Does that sound mainstream, or "objective" to you? In Obama's own book he waxes poetically about Jimmy Carter while explaining how much he hated Reagan.
On economics, he's argued that wealthy people are only wealthy due to the efforts of others, thus their money isn't their own. Care to ask the average American if they agree with this sentiment?
I mean, I guess he's "objective" if the objective is to run as the most leftwing candidate we've seen since Mcgovern.
