I call Obama a socialist because he's more like a socialist than any other descriptor I can come up with. He's certainly pretty fcking far from a liberal, and he's too socially conservative to be a progressive, yet too pro-left-wing and statist on economics to be a centrist.
I don't even use the term with derision - though I think European socialists are much better at socialism than Obama is.
That's a good point... what would you call BO, without calling him a Socialist? A quasi-Socialist?
A wannabe-Socialist? A limited-Socialist? A borderline-Socialist? A mixed bag with some socialism in it?
I see two of our forum's greatest minds have met at last.
