Is President Obama a Republican?

2014-10-24T05:24:15-04:00

Thought this was an interesting article- and keep in mind this is coming from "The American Conservative", not Huffington Post:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obama-is-a-republican/?mc_cid=b161673941&mc_eid=cd2f45dba4

Obama Is a Republican

He’s the heir to Richard Nixon, not Saul Alinsky.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 24 at 2014 8:49 AM

2014-10-24T08:49:39-04:00

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member, I read the article and it makes sense, but I'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around President Obama being a conservative. That said, the points made in the article seem valid. And I found another article (from 2011) that addresses the same theory:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/how-liberal-is-president-obama/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Response by SGT Richard H. made Oct 24 at 2014 9:44 AM

2014-10-24T09:44:10-04:00

When it comes to Politicians, I don't see a nickel's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats any more. Yes, they all espouse certain ideals fitting to their party's platforms/talking points, but when it comes down to action, they all pretty much fall flat.

The only thing I actually find surprising is the comment "keep in mind this is coming from The American Conservative, not Huffington Post" as if one is more credible than the other. I personally don't see either one of those as a credible news source as each is equally slanted toward its respective political ideology.

Response by SPC James Mcneil made Oct 24 at 2014 10:04 AM

2014-10-24T10:04:13-04:00

Wow... So according to this article, when Obama was blaming Republicans, he was in fact blaming himself. I say this guy's full of it, and he's trying to do what the majority of politicians these days seem to do, and that is divide our country as much as possible.

Response by MSG Brad Sand made Oct 24 at 2014 12:09 PM

2014-10-24T12:09:09-04:00

I can see how one might be able to consider the President a ‘Republican’, if we were willing to take the original Democratic Republican party of Jefferson as the foundation of a party and the Republican Party the legacy of the Federalist, but the problem would be that the modern Republican and Democratic Parties would both just be branches of the same party, the Federalist…which in a way is true…and which would mean there is no longer a party that fights to protect the people and individual states from a tyrannical Federal government…which I would agree is also true.

So yes, Obama is the head of the most tyrannical party in our two party system, and we can interchange the name Republican and Democrat and considering this draws attention to how poorly served the party system is in representing the citizens and states of our Nation when we longer have a party fighting for individual liberties and states rights.

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Oct 24 at 2014 12:21 PM

2014-10-24T12:21:45-04:00

If you look at the placements on the political compass it actually has President Obama not too far from President GW Bush on the Authoritarian / Conservative box. We thankfully do not seem to have true left of center politicians in our mix, but the real issue is the Authoritarian politicians. Which seems to be most of them.

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 24 at 2014 1:35 PM

2014-10-24T13:35:13-04:00

Ha ha ha ha...ha haha...of man that made me laugh. Good comedy relief topic.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 24 at 2014 1:43 PM

2014-10-24T13:43:05-04:00

What if I told you that Republicans and Democrats are the same party and our nation has had one party rule for over 150 years

Response by COL Jean (John) F. B. made Oct 24 at 2014 1:47 PM

2014-10-24T13:47:13-04:00

Interesting article.

I don't think it matters who identifies whom with which party. As we have debated before on this site, the parties have changed so much over the years, it really does not matter which party is which. What matters is the individual's beliefs and policies.

It makes little difference to me what label people want to put on Obama, except one: "President of the United States". That one really bothers me very much.

Response by Capt Jeff S. made Jan 18 at 2015 11:15 PM

2015-01-18T23:15:10-05:00

The author is a disgruntled "conservative?" who lost his job for what he said about former President Bush.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/thou-shalt-not-speak-ill-of-bush/

Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Bush

A Republican loyalist is fired for sticking to principle.

Response by LCpl Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 24 at 2015 3:57 AM

2015-01-24T03:57:25-05:00

He acts a whole hell of a lot like Dubya that's for sure. He's more about drone wars then starting big ones though. In the end though, the Black doctrine applies. The American two party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.

Response by SGT Mark Sullivan made Mar 26 at 2015 7:55 PM

2015-03-26T19:55:58-04:00

I think this sums up how I feel about these two parties

Response by SSgt Christopher Brose made Jun 16 at 2016 11:56 AM

2016-06-16T11:56:46-04:00

I would seriously want to drug test anyone seriously asking that question.

Response by SGT William Howell made Jun 16 at 2016 12:03 PM

2016-06-16T12:03:52-04:00

We had had only one kind of piss poor representation for the last 30 years on either side.

A perfect example, Mitch McConnell is going to jump on ol' RP and answer questions. We gave him some hard ones. You know what he did? Ducked out like the chicken shit he is. He sounds good when dealing with the run of the mill stupid voter, but when vets ask educated questions he ran away scared. That is what we have representing us.

How about NAFTA? It was a bipartisan money grab that has cost us all jobs and moved us from a manufacturing economy to a consumer economy. Manufacturing economies thrive, consumer economies die. It was not good for any American and any moron could see that!