CSM: Quiz - Are You More Liberal than the President?

[Elessar78]

[B]Obama's your main man.

You're a moderate liberal, or maybe even an Independent. You agree with most of the decisions President Obama has made while in office, and you understand that compromise is sometimes necessary.[/B]

ding ding!

[USS Redskins]

Perhaps that's because your perceptions of Obama are not in line with what Obama has actually done in office. It's a very common thing.

Well, he hasnt really done anything, so... just kidding.

[Rdskns2000]

Your results
Obama's your main man.

You're a moderate liberal, or maybe even an Independent. You agree with most of the decisions President Obama has made while in office, and you understand that compromise is sometimes necessary.



Voting for Gary Johnson

[Popeman38]

Your results

Obama's your main man.

You're a moderate liberal, or maybe even an Independent. You agree with most of the decisions President Obama has made while in office, and you understand that compromise is sometimes necessary.

Yeah, not exactly. I am an independent, and I agree with Obama on about half of what he has done.

[twa]

I keep trying to tell ya that most of ya'll are off the liberal deep end.

[MissU28]

It says Obama's my main man. Not quite.

On a side note, how many people picked the "one party system" answer for the last question or that the oppositions job is soley to argue with everything the President says? I am really interested in seeing who has those points of view on the subject.

I picked one party system...never really thought about it, but the idea is interesting to me. Or the "one from each party sharing duties"...I don't know if that would work realistically, though

[DCsportsfan53]

JMS, I've seen you say it before in regards to Obama not being a liberal and I agree with you 100% on all counts you stated. The country has been drifting right for decades. Today's Dems are more comparable to Reagan and Nixon than FDR, JFK or LBJ. The media machine is so successful at re-framing conversations and topics people actually think this guy is a socialist and it's laughable.

[Enter Apotheosis]

I picked one party system...never really thought about it, but the idea is interesting to me. Or the "one from each party sharing duties"...I don't know if that would work realistically, though

I wouldn't call a one party system a party system at all. Given the overall tone of that poll I thought it was fairly obvious that that choice was designed to represent communism.

[MissU28]

I wouldn't call a one party system a party system at all. Given the overall tone of that poll I thought it was fairly obvious that that choice was designed to represent communism.

I took it as a bunch of people running for president without labeling themselves as any party....so people would vote on platforms, not on party affiliation.

[Enter Apotheosis]

JMS, I've seen you say it before in regards to Obama not being a liberal and I agree with you 100% on all counts you stated. The country has been drifting right for decades. Today's Dems are more comparable to Reagan and Nixon than FDR, JFK or LBJ. The media machine is so successful at re-framing conversations and topics people actually think this guy is a socialist and it's laughable.

While I generally agree, I'm not sure how far I'd push the idea that Obama's ideology is actually right-leaning based on his record. I suspect that a combination of social and political circumstance coupled with poor political strategy makes him look worse than he is to some degree. In my largely uninformed opinion, I'd have to say that Obama's biggest failing is probably that he's not hard-headed and stubborn enough to push his agenda without letting it get torn to shreds by bad compromises along the way.

I took it as a bunch of people running for president without labeling themselves as any party....so people would vote on platforms, not on party affiliation.

I definitely agree with you on that being an interesting state of affairs to pontificate about. Unfortunately, I think parties are pretty much an inescapable conclusion in politics whether we like them or not. Banding together to support common goals is a basic social instinct that's not going away any time soon and parties are the political manifestation of that instinct.

[Thiebear]

You agreed with the points I was trying to make in short hand?
This is the stuff I've been saying. Not sure why conservatives hate Obama as he clearly reaches across the aisle to either appease opposition or just cooperate to get things done. As you said, he's not a true liberal and Romney is not a true conservative. It's just a crazy election.
My point is that McCain is in the center so Far Right conservatives think he's a commie. Which he's not.
That's why I mentioned it?

President Obama is a bit Libertarian in the Foreign policy realm, I always give him a B+ on how he intercedes.. The drones are his weakness in this field as they are the easy road.

[twa]

indefinite detention is a bit Libertarian?

[Thiebear]

indefinite detention is a bit Libertarian?

As with Bush, whose going to take them? There is no answer for that one other than "let them go"?
Though they should be tried, but New York wasn't the venue.

[Jumbo]

I keep trying to tell ya that most of ya'll are off the liberal deep end.

Overstated probably, but i still lean towards agreement, especially if you make the necessary qualifier that "conservative" these days means "bat **** crazy", "religious zealot", and plain ole "extremist" notably more than it used to.

and the quiz is pretty silly in terms of credibility, even allowing the obvious excuses for its nature.

[KAOSkins]

Overstated probably, but i still lean towards agreement, especially if you make the necessary qualifier that "conservative" these days means "bat **** crazy", "religious zealot", and plain ole "extremist" notably more than it used to.

and the quiz is pretty silly in terms of credibility, even allowing the obvious excuses for its nature.

Considering it obvious nature, I'm surprised by the righties and libbies here who are coming up more liberal than the pres. Wouldn't that be the other way around if CSM had an agenda? I do think it's a bit silly, but more because there aren't enough answers available to cover all contingencies. Spot on the def of conservative though .

For the record as a dem I find CSM to be very non-inflammatory or opinionated and an excellent provider of news.