MSNBC: Obama has to move to the center

[dennis4868]

WTF? If he is already in the center why would he have to move? The answer is that based on the lies of repubs and their friends in the media Obama is a left winger, so in the media's, including MSNBC's, fantasy world Obama has to move to the "center." I cannot think of one thing that Obama did that would put him in the left winger category. In fact, in many ways Obama is right of center!

[Kitsune]

1. Obama moving to the center would be a move to the left anyway.

[TBF]

8. +1 nt

[DURHAM D]

15. Amen and plus 1000. nt

[Catherina]

20. +1 n/t

[indepat]

28. A sizable move to the left

:)

[glitch]

32. Well said, but unfortunately the Wurlitzer won't play it that way. nt

[Recursion]

45. Yeah. Teabaggers think W was too center-left, too

And they were wrong, too.

Pretending there's a single left/right spectrum that politicians can be placed on is broken. Obama has historically very high favorable ratings; Congress doesn't. I don't think the President needs to do anything, really: Congress needs to get off its ass and do its job.

[Vincardog]

2. Bingo More RW BS

[glinda]

5. This is what the election bought them. More talking time on the media for propaganda.

If this is not corrected and outlets for free speech for the left is not found, game over.

[Vincardog]

17. The Corporate Owned Media needed a GOP victory to get across the Corporate viewpoint?

[glinda]

48. No. They just now have their rationalization to the public for their bad behavior.

[Skink]

3. One word. Veto.

Obama needs to become a one man filibuster.

[arcane1]

4. Move to the center???

Wouldn't that mean moving to the left?

What a stupid thing to say on MSNBC... why should he move AT ALL???

[piratefish08]

6. fuck.

I WISH he'd move to the center..........

[mmonk]

7. Mumbo jumbo. Makes absolutely no sense intellectually.

[whathehell]

44. I don't think it's possible to "understand" the M$M's talking points outside

of the concept of the "corporate takeover" of the public airwaves.

Without some sort of restraint on Corporate ownership and power, we have no "free press" and the airwaves have become nothing more than a corporate (Republican) mouthpieces.

Fox is only the most obvious....All of the televised media, Cable and networks (MSNBC PM aside)have been "cheerleading" this Repuke "takeover" for months now.

In contrast, I want to ask?...Does anyone remember ANY of this "buildup" going into the '06 Midterms?....I don't..In fact, they not only only did little to nothing of this year's "horse race punditry", they were especially "low key" after we won the house.

It doesn't, imo, take a long look at the "big picture" here to see that our constitutionally mandated "free press" is GONE.

Whatever needs to be done to reverse this, whether it be breaking up of the monopolies, re-instating some sort of Fairness Doctrine, or something else entirely -- I contend that we are screwed until it happens.

[Barack_America]

9. Not possible to move any further right without officially putting an "R" next to his name.

Lol at this corporate media myth that Obama is a liberal.

[bushisanidiot]

10. The President already is in the center. The left of the left needs to stop bashing him.

I love Rachel and Keith, but I COULDN'T STAND IT when they bashed Obama all year long. IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR!! Then, suddenly, in the last couple of days before the election, they started reading off his long list of accomoplishments. President Obama was in a losing position the minute he took office because our party is a bunch of unherdable cats with so many issues that could not possibly all get the attention that is demanded.

Whiners. Whiners on OUR SIDE is what lost the election. And the MSM fed into it and the tea party idiots were the exclamation point on the LIE that Americans were not happy with the direction the President has been taking us.

[dennis4868]

13. Great post!

The Dems eat their own and we allowed the tea party and media run wild with lies.

[bushisanidiot]

21. That's it in a nutshell.

The question is, will Rachel and Keith attempt to balance out FOX by pointing out what the tea party republicans are really trying to do, or will they attack our guys like they've been doing for the last 2 years? 2012 is on the line. RIGHT NOW. Fox will be working overtime to ensure tea party/republican victory. We need SOMEONE to step up and balance them on the other side. Even Ed Schultz bashes the President. I HATE that guy.

[disillusioned73]

34. It's obvious you don't watch any of their shows..

because if you did - you'd know that both Kieth & Ratchel exposed the "teabaggers" for what they really were long ago.

[bushisanidiot]

37. Yes, they did. But then they tore down the President in the next breath.

bah!!

[Vincardog]

18. And the Democratic LEADERSHIP bears NO responsibility?

[SunsetDreams]

30. + infinity

[mike_c]

33. and it's all Nader's fault, too....

I mean, why not dust off all the best canards, huh? Damn the left for thinking that their political support might be repaid with leadership and representation! Damn them!

[Bobbie Jo]

38. +infinity.

[DimplesinMI]

39. 1000% Correct

N/T

[IndyPragmatist]

11. on the whole political spectrum, he is still left of center.

I dont really see how you can argue that Obama is already at the center. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being most liberal), I would say Obama is at 6.5 (a little higher on some issues). If you ask a Republican, they will say he is a 18; a Democrat would likely say he is a 5. Dont forget how far to the right some of this nation is. There are some parts of America that believe Obama is a Muslim, or that 9/11 was an inside job.

Moving to the center (a la Clinton) would work in 1994. But many of the Republicans elected yesterday ran a campaign that focused on not working with Obama. I don't really know if they would cooperate with him if he moved to a 4 on that scale. Many people were voting against Obama, not for a candidate. If these candidates want to keep their constituents happy, they will have to oppose Obama at all costs.

[bushisanidiot]

27. I would agree that he is slightly left of center.. which is where the country is.

We ARE a center-left nation and we must be governed from center-left or we lose. The tea party/repubs only chance to win is to try to be center-right..and the republican party establishment KNOWS it, but they also know they can't get passed the primaries with center-right candidates.

a center-left president and a center-right congress could get some things done. but the tea party will not allow the repukes to move toward the center. they know they would be voted out in the primaries if they did move toward the center.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. And there are large, heavily populated areas that want a Single Payer Health Care system.

You need to get out of flyover land, occasionally.

[wryter2000]

12. You said it

I'd like for one of these moronic "pundits" to tell me where in hell he/she thinks this mythic "center" is.

[frylock]

14. sounds good to me

[City Lights]

16. For once I agree with daytime msnbc. Obama must move left.

:bounce:

[mmonk]

35. +1

[bigdarryl]

19. The Midterm Elections has nothing to do with Obama the this is what happens

in history only twice has the party in power retained more seats. These pundits are jackasses.

[Javaman]

22. So is this the tea leaves excuse the right wing will use to now

work with Obama?

I get so tired of the respin of the spin.

I like to know, exactly, how does one move to a place that they currently occupy? Is this subatomic theory?

[jillan]

23. Msnbc needs to move more to the LEFT.

[and-justice-for-all]

24. what for? nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. He'd have to make a sharp left just to reach center.

[AnArmyVeteran]

26. If Obama moved to the center he would have to move left!

He's already a borderline winger by giving-in to almost every demand they made. And because of what he did he lost the elections yesterday.

[mike_c]

29. he's gonna FINALLY move left?

:rofl:

[avaistheone1]

31. Corporate America determines what is center.

Corporate America orders Obama to move to their bogus center.

:puke: :puke: :puke:



I hope Obama doesn't take the bait.

[marlakay]

36. i agree also move to center and be more left!

he has given the repubs everything trying to be the president of all the people...he has forgotten the ones who got him elected!

[Warren Stupidity]

40. Great, that would be to the left then.

Just kidding. Of course, the narrative is that having refused to work with the NOPE party for the last two years, Obama must now reach out and do exactly what they tell him to do.

And good ol' Harry is playing the 'lets all work together' violin right on queue. We are the worst major political party in the history of politics.

[VMI Dem]

41. Good. That means he must move to the left.

[CommonSensePLZ]

47. Try again - move to the RIGHT

nt.

[laundry_queen]

42. Great idea

Because when the right wing lost in '08, they RAN to the center, and that is what helped them to win big yesterday! Right? Right??? Oh. Wait. ...................................

[CommonSensePLZ]

46. They DID say that about the GOP too a couple years ago, but

Obama is already so very moderate, if he moved much more to the center he'd be a black Hank Hill.