Why is it that Barack Obama is painted up as some kind of far left extremist?
The fact of the matter is that he is one of the most conservative, authoritarian presidents in American History. He's shown time and time again that he cares more about corporate profits and the expansion of the military industrial complex than he does for more socialistic issues, and yet over and over again, the gasbags bloviate about what a liberal he is. I don't understand, have the words conservative and liberal been thrown around so much in this country that they have no meaning beyond being thought stopping devices? Is the american public seriously this uninformed?
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
The link goes to a map of the political positions of the 2012 candidates. You'll notice that the difference between Mitt and Barack is quite small.
@Little Princess
I agree with you, but I feel that in our current political "scene" corporatist policies are typically associated with the modern (Reagan and beyond) right wing, but as Clinton and his orgy of deregulation showed, it would appear that greed knows no party boundaries .