Obama goes Right Wing!

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Social media emerged a new directive on the left. It kicked Al Franken out of the Democrats and started breadtube, but it hasn't really overtaken the left.

I'm pretty sure the alt-right is just the opposite of the nu left that emerged in the social media advent.

[Mecha82]

Well both are two sides of same coin after all so both you social media same way.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Well both are two sides of same coin after all so both you social media same way.

Not sure what you mean by "so both you social media same way."

[Darth Wedgius]

I don't know what language that was in. If it means that racial identitarians, whether left or alt-right, are two sides of the same coin, I more or less agree. But I doubt that's what you meant.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Anyways I wish Obama luck in the next election.

[Antiboyscout]

Washington Post thinks so:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Washington Post thinks so:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true

I think the article substance makes a case more specifically that he's not a revolutionary socialist more than that he's a conservative. Perhaps just calling him a moderate would have worked more for me, but that's no secret in this thread.

[ProfessorDetective]

Washington Post thinks so:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true

I think the article substance makes a case more specifically that he's not a revolutionary socialist more than that he's a conservative. Perhaps just calling him a moderate would have worked more for me, but that's no secret in this thread.

Yeah, 'left of center' would work best for him.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Washington Post thinks so:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true

I think the article substance makes a case more specifically that he's not a revolutionary socialist more than that he's a conservative. Perhaps just calling him a moderate would have worked more for me, but that's no secret in this thread.

Yeah, 'left of center' would work best for him.

https://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-civil-rights-legacy-and-ours/

Among the promises made on civil rights, Obama pledged to fight employment discrimination, expand hate-crime laws, end racial profiling, support ex-offenders’ reentry into society, eliminate sentencing disparities, expand drug courts as an alternative to incarceration, support rights for LGBTQ individuals, and repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Clinton-era policy that barred openly gay people from serving in the military.

The administration achieved many if not all of these goals. It’s been most successful in the arena of gay and lesbian rights. Obama signed into law an expansion of the hate-crime statute to include crimes motivated by antigay bias. He ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” and, more recently, lifted the ban on transgender people serving in the military. He issued an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. He personally endorsed marriage equality in May 2012 and refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the law signed by Bill Clinton that denied federal benefits to same-sex couples married in states that recognized such marriages, thereby easing the way for its invalidation by the Supreme Court in 2013. And when the Court took up the question of same-sex marriage directly, the Obama administration supported the claimants, and Obama’s solicitor general, Don Verrilli, delivered an impassioned argument for why the Court shouldn’t defer recognition of same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. A federal bill barring employment discrimination against LGBTQ people has not passed, but there the blame lies with Congress.

While I don't peg conservatives heartless outside the protocol of religious doctrine, this is a rap sheet that one would never get caught dead with

[ProfessorDetective]

Washington Post thinks so:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true

I think the article substance makes a case more specifically that he's not a revolutionary socialist more than that he's a conservative. Perhaps just calling him a moderate would have worked more for me, but that's no secret in this thread.

Yeah, 'left of center' would work best for him.

https://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-civil-rights-legacy-and-ours/

Among the promises made on civil rights, Obama pledged to fight employment discrimination, expand hate-crime laws, end racial profiling, support ex-offenders’ reentry into society, eliminate sentencing disparities, expand drug courts as an alternative to incarceration, support rights for LGBTQ individuals, and repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Clinton-era policy that barred openly gay people from serving in the military.

The administration achieved many if not all of these goals. It’s been most successful in the arena of gay and lesbian rights. Obama signed into law an expansion of the hate-crime statute to include crimes motivated by antigay bias. He ended “don’t ask, don’t tell” and, more recently, lifted the ban on transgender people serving in the military. He issued an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. He personally endorsed marriage equality in May 2012 and refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the law signed by Bill Clinton that denied federal benefits to same-sex couples married in states that recognized such marriages, thereby easing the way for its invalidation by the Supreme Court in 2013. And when the Court took up the question of same-sex marriage directly, the Obama administration supported the claimants, and Obama’s solicitor general, Don Verrilli, delivered an impassioned argument for why the Court shouldn’t defer recognition of same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. A federal bill barring employment discrimination against LGBTQ people has not passed, but there the blame lies with Congress.

While I don't peg conservatives heartless outside the protocol of religious doctrine, this is a rap sheet that one would never get caught dead with

Like I said, 'left-of-center'. I didn't mean that as a slight, by-the-by. I genuinely respect the man for... MOST of what he did during his eight years in office. But, you know, drone strikes, ICE, etc. No one is perfect.