No more, I should think, than the number of previously nonpartisan or third-partisan or simply discouraged lefty independents the Dems will pick up, once Sanders has done his work. Do you think most of those cheering at his rallies now have ever campaigned for a Democrat before? Maybe, but I doubt it.
I think you be the victim of political relativity - the shift of the Republicans to the far right might make it seem like Obama moved left. There is also the impact of events since then. The Recession moved people who pay attention to wanting more regulation.
You don’t want to sound like those Republican congressmen who claim that whatever candidate the Democrats run is the most left wing person in history - like the guy Jon Stewart chopped into little pieces during the 2004 convention.
Religion by the way is not a left/right issue - Karl Rove is an atheist, no matter how much it hurts me to say so.
Based on this video, Obama is about as far left as Reagan.
Clinton triangulated against Republicans who wanted to cut everything, and against Democrats who didn’t wanna reform welfare, and did so publicly.
Obama did not do that to Occupy Wall Street or the Islamism-apologising crowd, which has given rise to the fact a socialist can win primaries.
. . . but he did nothing else for them either.
No, what I just said has given rise to it.
Obama triangulating against those fringes would’ve stopped taken away huge GOP talking points and huge far-left energy that has given America Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
As a die-hard democrat, it pains me to do this, but Trump has disavowed David Duke:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-disavows-david-duke-kkk/index.html
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You really need to rethink that statement.
This is the standard line of thought that has appeared in online commentary (shudder) for 8 years.
The president, black people, and liberals are now free to talk about race, and mention the problems that have divided the races for the past, oh, 300 years.
This makes white people feel bad.
Therefore, talking about race is bad. Pointing out the division that has always existed makes it exist (if you were previously blind).
Therefore, the president is divisive.
he is supposed to at least try to unite Americans.
America right now needs a divider, not a uniter. Hence the appeal of Sanders.
And Trump too, of course, but only Sanders is dividing the country along the appropriate lines.
“A troubled man for troubled times.”
That sounds more like Lincoln, actually. Neither Obama nor Sanders nor Trump is a troubled man.
so much for “hope and change.”
Well, Obama ain’t Sanders, more’s the pity.
What is the point of making statements like that when everything you actually post sounds like you’re channeling Rush Limbaugh?
BUMP to discuss Obama replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman, when Obama could’ve easily just added a new denomination and put Tubman on it.
I’m progressive on the environment, abortion, and most economic issues. But I’m tired of these SJWs wanting to erase history, make everyone who wasn’t up to today’s standards of race views into Hitler, etc. No, Andrew Jackson was no Hitler; he committed no Holocaust-like genocide (pre-ordained and based on conspiracy theories). Ironic that the one day Obama actually criticizes the SJWs (about BLM shouting people down), he mimics them.
If this is how far to the left the Democrats are moving; then its no wonder why Trump isn’t further behind in the race.
How much do you know about the Trail of Tears?
Unlike you, I would prefer the minimum requirement to be on US currency to be somewhat higher than not being Hitler.