I won’t link Ezra directly because as far as I’m concerned he’s not just a poor writer and below average intellect, he’s also a thoroughgoing Beltway Buttkissing hypocritical “pretend” liberal.
But that won’t stop my pointing out like a broken clock, he’s right for once.
Ezra Klein: Obama is "a moderate Republican of the early 1990s"
by Gaius Publius, Americablog
4/26/2011 01:05:00 PM
(T)his is just the logical endpoint of two years spent arguing over what Barack Obama is – or isn’t. … We’ve obsessed over every answer except the right one: President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s. First, the “Obama is a Republican” meme is getting mainstreamed. Great news. Time to call it right, in the same way that Krugman is starting to call it right – out loud.
Second, Klein seems to be bending over to praise Republicans; either that, or he’s an admirer himself, and sincerely so. We need to acknowledge that about Klein. (In that sense, this is a “state of the Klein” piece as much as a “state of the Obama” article.)
(h/t lambert)
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Most of us, who are more honest about our politics and are not blinded by pretty faces, saw through Obama’s rhetoric long ago. Now that this poseur has achieved what his “Shock Doctrine” masters groomed him for, the so-call left wing pundits are just now figuring this out. These idiots still think that Bill Clinton is a democrat. Although to give Bill some credit, he’s closer to the Democratic party line than Obama and I really don’t think if Hillary were in the Oval Office, we’d be having this discussion about the Social Safety Net. Bill didn’t allow it.
Why would anyone take him seriously?
Warmest regards,
Doc