This is an ad for some sort of Time magazine web feature, grabbed today from the magazine’s homepage:
Time is a little late to the table; this has been the media line since shortly after Obama was elected (FAIR Action Alert, 2/3/09) and has been going strong ever since (Extra!, 1/11).
i think they flipped the photo by accident…his first step was to the right, and the next and the next….
â┚¬Ã…“Obama delivered the finest speech of his presidency,â┚¬Ã‚ Brooks begins. â┚¬Ã…“Best of all for those who admire the political craft,â┚¬Ã‚ he continues, â┚¬Ã…“was the speech’s seductive nature and careful ambiguity. Obama threw out enough rhetorical chum to keep the liberals happy, yet he subtly staked out ground in the center on nearly every substantive issue in order to win over the moderates needed to get anything passed.â┚¬Ã‚Â
“In other words, Obama’s speech was bookended by lies and phony concern for the uninsured and the elderly, while the substance was thoroughly right-wing…”
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/brks-s12.shtml
The right leaning of Obama makes the term of Uncle Tom in the white house a true-ism.
The press always plays the (partisan Republican) game of portraying Democratic presidents as going too far to the left. Much of the corporate press makes a pretense of worshiping the “center,” but only as long as that “center” is defined as being well to the right of the public. Obama has governed well to the right of the public, but he’s been getting nailed as someone “too far to the left” from the beginning.
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