re: Democratic party played by Obama?

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That being said, it is a specific left. It is his left and only his left. His left has a strong federal government that actually prefers the NSA and other spying techniques so he can keep us safe from ourselves.

He also, as has been spouted on this board till the cows come home, is a big advocate for taxation and government welfare type programs. People often refer to this as income redistribution.

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I'll agree with this. He's primarily a fiscal liberal, and less concerned with other elements of the democratic agenda. It's probably not what the fiscally moderate highly educated suburbanites who were so important to his coalition were expecting.