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He also signed Obamacare, a bill written by Republicans, approved by Democrats and then watered down by Republicans who held a majority. All Obama did was sign it as he was legally required to.


Democrats had almost an 80 House seat majority and 57 Senate seats when Obamacare was enacted.


That's the prime example of why casting Obama as a radical is ridiculous.

Having the power to ram something more partisan-palatable through and choosing to negotiate with the opposition to find a more mutually-tolerable consensus is the antithesis of radicalism.


I don’t think Obama is a radical. But he had radical people in his orbit from his “community organizer” days.


I can't see much of their agenda that made it through into radical policy. Are there specific examples I'm missing?


It made it into the street level advocacy, which was my point above.




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