FT.com / Columnists / Clive Crook - Why Obama’s left leaning is no tactical feint
That's how Mr. Cook ended the article. He began it with this:
Everything we knew about President Obama before the election told us that he was quite liberal and perhaps a Marxist as well. It was his policy to lose the Iraq war, for Pete's sake. Come on Clive, pay attention. Everything he's doing now he said he would do. Oh, there were some obvious lies (see everything about clean coal and oil drilling). But Clive, are you delusional? Well, you say you welcome "cap and trade" so I guess you are.
If Mr Obama were a centrist he would be positioning himself to the right of the congressional Democrats, with a plan to be walked back in their direction. In fact, his budget has delighted the left of his party. Far from pulling him to the centre, most Democrats will resist that move if he tries. Or am I missing something?
That's how Mr. Cook ended the article. He began it with this:
On this page last week I argued that Barack Obama’s first budget showed him to be more of a left-leaning liberal than I and many others – sceptics and admirers alike – had previously supposed.
Everything we knew about President Obama before the election told us that he was quite liberal and perhaps a Marxist as well. It was his policy to lose the Iraq war, for Pete's sake. Come on Clive, pay attention. Everything he's doing now he said he would do. Oh, there were some obvious lies (see everything about clean coal and oil drilling). But Clive, are you delusional? Well, you say you welcome "cap and trade" so I guess you are.
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