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Thursday, July 10, 2008

News Flash: Obama is Complex

The last couple of weeks have really had me scratching my head. I always harbored a worry that the elongated primary contest would somehow drill into the liberal base the notion that Obama was somehow the Liberal Messiah they have been waiting for. For some, this unfortunate notion has obviously taken root.

For the rest of us who actually understood that Obama is a complex person and that to "unify" us he would need to sometimes take unpopular non-liberal positions, the following snip from a great post by Lawrence Lessig is a must-read:

Obama is no (in the 1970s sense) "liberal": There are many who are upset by this who believe this (and other recent moves) shows Obama "moving to the center." People who make this argument signal they don't know squat about which they speak.

You can't read Obama's books, watch how he behaved in the Illinois Senate, and watched how he voted in the US Senate, and believe he is a Bernie Sanders liberal. He is not now, and nor has ever been. That's not to say there aren't issues on which he takes a liberal position. It is to say that the mix of views he actually has and has had doesn't map on a 1970s spectrum of liberals to conservative.

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Posted by Metavirus at 7/10/2008 06:37:00 PM  

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