Is Barack Obama the most conservative president in the modern era?

No, I don't think he's the *most* conservative overall. But clearly, he leans to the right pretty much every time.

The problem is, conservatives have lurched so far to the right, that even trying to be moderate looks "liberal" to them, but looks right-leaning to everyone else.

EDIT: I see others mentioning the stimulus (similar to Bush's TARP), and Obamacare (over 40% is tax cuts at Republican insistance - then they voted against it anyway). But an insurance mandate has been a REPUBLICAN idea since Nixon first proposed it! Reagan supported it. Newt Gingrich supported it, before he was against it.

So yeah, even the "stimulus" and "Obamacare" can be traced back to their conservative roots.

He does not set the tax rates, neither did Reagan. Congress does that. Democrats Kennedy and Johnson started the Vietnam war. Democrat Truman started the Korean war. If you want to know the real answer to your question, watch how many Conservatives vote for him next time around as well as how many voted for him last time. Your question is one of the dumbest rhetorical questions going around.

The left hates Conservatives. Do they hate Obama?

"He actually has lower tax rates than the almighty Ronald Reagan"

This isn't because of him, this is because of the Bush Tax Cuts

"has caved into republicans on every issue"

No he hasn't, he's gotten his way on almost everything, the only thing he's caved on, is details, but in the end he's still has gotten his way.(Universal Healthcare is the best example of this)

"If you looked at only Barack Obama's actions and not his rhetoric he is clearly conservative."

He has triple the Deficit then Bush's

Bush had a Yearly deficit of 500 Billion

Obama has a Yearly deficit of 1.5 Trillion

How's that for Conservative?

He additionally tripled the deficit and left a selection of of in the previous center type tax deduction interior the airborne dirt and dirt. i'm no longer able to have faith the sainthood the hot conservatives lay at his ft. He grew to become right into a reasonably sufficient president, of the 'large guy' variety who dabbled in shadow government with Iran Contra. no longer a large constitutionalist. What he had grew to become right into a large publicist, one that knew his exposure could be remembered. And he had some large speechwriters. yet his 2d term grew to become into already being commented on as 'he grew to become into drained', he grew to become into making blunders in his speech, there grew to become into communicate of him taking it greater straightforward, and robust-natured joking approximately his naps. finding decrease back, of direction we see the earliest ranges of the Alzheimer's that should declare his existence. He has been credited with a competent deal of issues on the international point he had no longer something to do with in spite of desperate claims that he someway orchestrated it. like the autumn of the U.S.. something that had be happening for some years.

This could be the most ignorant statement on Yahoo over the past 12 months? This question is even dumber than the one questioning whether anyone survived on the Titanic after it sank.

Barack isn't even close to be a centrist, let alone to being a conservative, let alone being the most conservative President in the modern era.

WOW, hard to believe you were actually able to type that with a straight face.

whale

I'll give you that he is far more conservative than most Republicans give him credit for. Also, Libya is hardly starting a foreign war. It's even less of a commitment than Clinton's whole Kosovo thing.

So.. you're saying Obama is for a balanced budget? And the health care scam he pushed, that has done so much damage to us already, really doesn't exist?

I wouldn't say conservative but I would agree that he is very much akin to every other R or D we've had for quite some time. If you really want change, please consider Ron Paul as he is the only one challenging the status quo in Washington.

His health care atrocity was one of the most leftist bills passed by Congress in recent history, that alone should prove he isn't conservative in the least bit.

The stimulus plan and healthcare bill were anything but conservative lol