Has Obama been a successful Moderate Republican president? Can he beat the white version of himself?

[tredway]

His signature achievement, the health care law, was literally a rehashed idea from the Heritage Foundation (which produces lots of NeoCon policies) that was upheld by a Bush (a NeoCon himself) appointee. Not surprisingly, Romney (also in the NeoCon vein) was the first politician to institute an individual insurance mandate at the state level.

Obama signed two extensions of the Patriot Act, signed NDAA into law (allows for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charges), assassinated an American citizen (Bush didn't even do this), kept Guantanamo open (after promising to close it in his first year), kept Monsanto people high up in the FDA (Christine Escobar), still raids legal medical marijuana facilities (after saying he would stop this practice), tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan (morphed it from an anti-terror campaign to a nation building campaign), kept Bush's guy running the federal reserve (Seriously...Bush's guy?), helped arm Mexican drug cartels (Operation Fast and Furious), extended the Bush tax cuts, opposed any effort to re-institute Glass-Steagall (which separates commercial from investment banking), mandated all citizens make a purchase from a for-profit company (rehashed REPUB. idea from the early 90s)....

And then of course there's the kill lists, the PhRMA deal, the drone strikes, the refusal to enforce immigration laws (I thought Romney would definitely differ on this.....but he won't take a stand), the unwillingness to replace a corrupt and/or inept Attorney General (Remember Alberto Gonzalez..lol) etc. etc

[langford59]

His signature achievement, the health care law, was literally a rehashed idea from the Heritage Foundation (which produces lots of NeoCon policies) that was upheld by a Bush (a NeoCon himself) appointee. Not surprisingly, Romney (also in the NeoCon vein) was the first politician to institute an individual insurance mandate at the state level.

Obama signed two extensions of the Patriot Act, signed NDAA into law (allows for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charges), assassinated an American citizen (Bush didn't even do this), kept Guantanamo open (after promising to close it in his first year), kept Monsanto people high up in the FDA (Christine Escobar), still raids legal medical marijuana facilities (after saying he would stop this practice), tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan (morphed it from an anti-terror campaign to a nation building campaign), kept Bush's guy running the federal reserve (Seriously...Bush's guy?), helped arm Mexican drug cartels (Operation Fast and Furious), extended the Bush tax cuts, opposed any effort to re-institute Glass-Steagall (which separates commercial from investment banking), mandated all citizens make a purchase from a for-profit company (rehashed REPUB. idea from the early 90s)....

And then of course there's the kill lists, the PhRMA deal, the drone strikes, the refusal to enforce immigration laws (I thought Romney would definitely differ on this.....but he won't take a stand), the unwillingness to replace a corrupt and/or inept Attorney General (Remember Alberto Gonzalez..lol) etc. etc

what is with all these asinine, immature race questions today?

[hagaleah]

http://www.whathasobamadone.org/

romney wants to end employer provided health coverage. obama doesn't

[toryn34]

Moderate? I'd say he's been a bit to the right of that.