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2013-09-05 Home Front: Politix

Obama: 'In Europe, I'd Probably Be Considered Right in the Middle, Maybe Center-Left, Maybe Center-Right'

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 If you have to explain these things about yourself...

Posted by Raj 2013-09-05 00:37|| 2013-09-05 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish he was in Europe...

Posted by tu3031 2013-09-05 01:12|| 2013-09-05 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is quite ugly.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-05 01:21|| 2013-09-05 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Center left? I'll buy that. Of course he is positioning himself in relation to people who think National Socialism is a right-wing ideology.

Posted by SteveS 2013-09-05 01:31|| 2013-09-05 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 This is boilerplate for the NPR-listening left.

On a scale of 1-10, arbitrarily redfine the center as being 3 rather than 5 That way you can tell yourself and anyone else who cares that your position at 2 is only slightly left of center and that someone who is in the middle at 5 is a far right extremist. Framing the issue Alinsky/Lakoff style.

I actually had a former friend tell me that Rush Limbaugh was much, much farther from the center of American politics in his direction than NPR was in its direction. Delusional bubble thinking.

It's people like that, along with union and public sector thugs, who are running the government right now.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-09-05 04:58|| 2013-09-05 04:58|| Front Page Top

#6 He seems to be the most self obsessed POTUS I can remember.

Posted by Paul D 2013-09-05 07:02|| 2013-09-05 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 George Carlin said: "By definition, half the population is below average intelligence." Why should the below-average-intelligence cohort be expected to accurately identify where they are on the spectrum, including politically?

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-05 07:41|| 2013-09-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Who gives a rat's ass what he would be in EUrope? It's what he is in the US that matters. Leave it to a delusional American leftist to define things in EUropean terms.

Posted by Spot 2013-09-05 08:08|| 2013-09-05 08:08|| Front Page Top

#9 In Europe he would still be considered a thin-skinned, incompetent clown.

Posted by Iblis 2013-09-05 09:11|| 2013-09-05 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Must have made more sense in its original Austrian.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-09-05 09:12|| 2013-09-05 09:12|| Front Page Top

#11 In Europe they would have called a vote and gotten rid of him. No matter what he labelled himself.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-09-05 10:28|| 2013-09-05 10:28|| Front Page Top

#12 The economies of europe are mostly fubared.

Some areas look like Detroit in the sun.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-05 10:37|| 2013-09-05 10:37|| Front Page Top

#13 You vote present often enough and you can claim any position that suits you at any moment.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-05 13:00|| 2013-09-05 13:00|| Front Page Top

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