{"id":31778,"date":"2012-12-15T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/obama-moderate-republican.html"},"modified":"2012-12-15T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T08:42:17","slug":"obama-moderate-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/obama-moderate-republican.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Moderate Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Pretty much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh look. Just what I&#39;ve been saying all along.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\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:\/\/www.alan.com\/2012\/12\/14\/obama-in-the-1980s-i-would-be-considered-a-moderate-republican\/'>Obama: \u201cIn The 1980\u2032s I Would Be Considered A Moderate Republican\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpeaking to Univision in Miami, the president responded to the criticism that some view him as a socialist.<br \/>\nThe truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican. I mean, what I believe in is a tax system that is fair. I don\u2019t think government can solve every problem. I think that we should make sure that we\u2019re helping young peopl&#8230;\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\/4YUxupeJF8F' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Pretty much. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins Oh look. Just what I&#39;ve been saying all along.\u00a0 Embedded Link Obama: \u201cIn The 1980\u2032s I Would Be Considered A Moderate Republican\u201d Speaking to Univision in Miami, the president responded to the criticism that some view him as a socialist. The truth of the matter is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/obama-moderate-republican.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama: Moderate Republican&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130971,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/obama-the-moderate-republican.html","url_meta":{"origin":31778,"position":0},"title":"Obama, the Moderate Republican","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jul-16 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's probably too late for all those folk who are convinced that Obama is some sort of deranged crypto-Commie Leveler who wants to put everyone in work camps and seek some sort of Trotskyite dream. But, really, read this. This could be GHW Bush, or Ford, or Nixon, or Eisenhower.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/fearing-moderation.html","url_meta":{"origin":31778,"position":1},"title":"Fearing moderation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Nov-12 3:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama campaign was much more worried that John Huntsman would get the nomination than that Romney would. \u00a0The reason is obvious -- most of the Right would have held their nose to vote for a Republican moderate, and much of the middle might well have chosen Huntsman over Obama.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31250,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/nation-re-elects-moderate-republican.html","url_meta":{"origin":31778,"position":2},"title":"Nation re-elects moderate Republican","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-12 10:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. \u00a0William Saletan paints the case. \u00a0As he tells Republicans, \"So don\u2019t despair. 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