Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the fact that the man is essentially a cipher (thanks, MSM!), just who Barack Obama actually is depends on who's looking at him at any given moment:

"You never know what a president is like until he gets there," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the largest grassroots Right-wing organisation.

"He talks a good game in terms of trying to be a centrist but his policy positions are not those of a centrist. He is very partisan and ideologically oriented."

In a 1996 survey during his run for the Illinois senate, Obama ticked every liberal box: strong support of abortion, strongly in favour of gun control, strongly opposed to capital punishment.

But Matt Bennett, a deputy assistant in Clinton's White House, says that Obama has matured. "He was once a community activist in Chicago so at certain stages in his life he would have been identifiable as a liberal Democrat.

"But like a lot of us, as he has aged, his idealism has been replaced to some part with a strong pragmatism. He is interested in what will make a difference to people's lives. I would define him as a moderate Democrat."

Uh-huh. So all that stuff about him being the most liberal member of the Senate was...what, exactly? And his "spread the wealth" comment in response to Joe the Plumber? No biggie, and you'd better not use that racist code word, the one that begins with an S, to describe him, either.  Racist.

And then, there's this not-so-old chestnut:

No, he doesn't sound at all like a liberal idealist there. Why, I think I might have even mistaken him for Harry Truman while I was watching that clip. Yeah.

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