Is Obama a conservative or a progressive realist?

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Alterman and Escobar debate if Obama is a conservative politician or a progressive who knows how to win

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[JCJ77]

What has Obama done ever?

[MementoExpose]

Obama's views change more than the weather does

[jor81786]

there is a HUGE difference between corporate liberal and populist liberal. Where they differ.....the pop libs voted against the wall street bailout, they voted against Iraq from day 1 and will vote against Afghanistan, they will vote for a federal legalization of gay marriage, they want to take religion out of government, and so on. The corporate "liberals" latch on to facets of these ideas that they can hold onto and still win and make money for them and their friends.

[JRBeaman]

Obama knew what to say to become pres.

Now that he won that, he has no clue how to do the job he was elected to do, so we are all fucked.

[MustacheVerra]

Republicans, Liberals... it's all the same - don't you get it? this fake left vs right paradym is a distraction for is really going on. A small elite is running the show and theres nothing either party can do about it.

[MustacheVerra]

It would be interesting to hear Alterman point of view about the pro-Israeli hard line Obama has appointed. And see if thats change he can believe in.

[SweatLaserXP]

You should read Alterman's book "Why We're LIberals", where he shows how lack of compromise is partly what destroyed liberalism in the 1960s and 70s.

[billionaireby16]

I'm so damn sick of saying, "We're pure and they Won."

Thank YOU!!!!!

Obama 08 BABY!!!

[quest8899]

lol nice comedy

[MustacheVerra]

I like Alterman but i disgree with what he says.

When you start saying stuff like ''politic is the art of the possible, or the art of compromise'' you end up being manipulated by interest group(an elite) and the little people get screwed-the elite gets what they want and it's business as usual.

We need politicians who speak the truth like Ron Paul, Gravel and Nader..

[GlobalHuntMan]

Obama is not progressive. He voted to fund the war twice while in the US Senate. He voted against caps on interest rates for credit cards. He blames black inequality on a lack of personal responsibility in the black community, rather than drawing attention to institutionalized racism. He rewrote a nuclear regulation bill for his contributor Exelon. Worst of all, his Iraq plan, according to journalist Jeremy Scahill, would require an indefinite occupation of 20,000-60,000.

[jtmadman812]

when is the civil war im ready