What People Don’t Know About Barack Obama
by John Little on 16/12/2006George Will is urging Obama to run (like that’s in question) but notes his extremely liberal, socialist end of the spectrum, trackrecord:
What people see in him reveals more about them than about him. Some of his public utterances have the sponginess of Polonius’s bromides for Laertes (“neither a borrower nor a lender be . . . to thine own self be true”). In 2005 the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and the AFL-CIO rated his voting record a perfect 100. The nonpartisan National Journal gave him an 82.5 liberalism rating, making him more liberal than Clinton (79.8). He dutifully decries “ideological” politics but just as dutifully conforms to most of liberalism’s catechism, from “universal” health care, whatever that might mean, to combating global warming, whatever that might involve, and including the sacred injunction Thou Shalt Execrate Wal-Mart — an obligatory genuflection to organized labor.
The nation, which so far is oblivious to his orthodoxy, might not mind it if it is dispensed by someone with Obama’s “Can’t we all just get along?” manner. Ronald Reagan, after all, demonstrated the importance of congeniality to the selling of conservatism.
Project Vote Smart has Barack Obama’s interest group ratings.
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