{"id":30663,"date":"2012-10-17T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/three-distinctly-non-liberal-moments-from-obama-last-night.html"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:23:14","slug":"three-distinctly-non-liberal-moments-from-obama-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/three-distinctly-non-liberal-moments-from-obama-last-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Three distinctly non-liberal moments from Obama last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I noticed these as they came up:<\/p>\n<p>1. Bragging about increased oil production (and from federal lands) and &quot;clean coal.&quot;<br \/>2. Weak tea discussion of gun control.<br \/>3. Denying that government creates jobs.<\/p>\n<p>As the article notes, those are all (currently) centrist positions, and from a campaign perspective they were smart ones to trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>But \u00a0they support what Progressives have been saying for a long time, that Obama&#39;s not only not the Extreme Commie Radical that the Right likes to pump him up as, but he&#39;s not really on the Left much at all. Put him back in the 60s, 70s, even 80s and he&#39;d be a mainstream moderate Republican.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/17\/the-debate-was-great-for-democrats-but-not-for-liberals\/'>The Debate Was Great for Democrats, but Not for Liberals<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt least three moments should have upset progressives, as opposed to partisans.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Wbrih4DEJPW' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I noticed these as they came up: 1. Bragging about increased oil production (and from federal lands) and &quot;clean coal.&quot;2. Weak tea discussion of gun control.3. Denying that government creates jobs. As the article notes, those are all (currently) centrist positions, and from a campaign perspective they were smart ones to trumpet. But \u00a0they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/three-distinctly-non-liberal-moments-from-obama-last-night.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three distinctly non-liberal moments from Obama last night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,99,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-elections-2012","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26439,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/being-the-adults-in-the-room-regarding-santorum.html","url_meta":{"origin":30663,"position":0},"title":"Being the adults in the room regarding Santorum","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Feb-12 9:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Operation: Hilarity\" --the Daily Kos idea for progressives to vote for Rick Santorum in open primaries (like Michigan), with an idea to continuing the existing disarray in the GOP, is a really bad idea.1. 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