Despite being criticized by the U.S. Republican Party for being a left-leaning radical liberal, is President Obama, in truth, is actually a closeted conservative?
By: Ringo Bones
Maybe we
should be thanking Bruce Bartlett – that former domestic policy advisor for
both former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush - for raising
such a premise that the incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama is actually a “closeted
conservative” – as in President Obama’s policies are more akin to Ronald Reagan’s
than of any other U.S. Democratic Party president of the last 50 years. If
there’s a kernel of truth on Bruce Bartlett’s premise, the only difference
between President Barack Obama and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is that
Ronald Reagan was the only one who was rumoured to have starred in his very own
porno movie. But is there any truth to this?
According
to Bruce Bartlett, President Obama didn’t govern further towards the right in
comparison to the way President Reagan did back in the 1980s. The way I see it,
Obamacare is basically a U.S. Republican Party based idea and even Bartlett
agrees that Obamacare is not that much different to the universal healthcare
first proposed by President Eisenhower near the end of the 1950s.
As a
conservative leaning economist, Bruce Bartlett’s assessment of President Obama
being a Reagan-era conservative might apply to the way Obama handled the 2008
Credit Crunch – as in bailing out the “too big to fail” banks and other Wall
Street financial institutions reminiscent of Bartlett’s advice to then
President Reagan about the merits of “supply-side economics”. But compared to “radical
right” U.S. Republican Party politicians that run riot during the 2012 U.S.
Presidential Elections that ran on the platform of legalizing rape and banning
pornography in America – like Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin,
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and Pennsylvania Republican state
Senator Rick Santorum – President Barack Obama’s alleged conservatism is much
saner in comparison to the G.O.P. stalwarts recently mentioned.
2 comments:
If the former US President Ronald Reagan "allegedly" stared and performed in his own porno movie, does this make Ronald Reagan a "closeted liberal"?
I wonder if Bruce Bartlett had ever read Kent H. Steffgen's The Counterfeit Candidate on Steffgen's case that the then US President and the US Republican Party's "conservative darling" named Ronald Reagan was actually a "closeted liberal" who uses conservative words but does liberal acts.
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