President Obama and the myth of the liberal base [View All]

I am hard pressed to believe that meme that is being circulated that President Obama rode into office on the shoulders of the liberal activists. There are a few reasons why I have a problem with this concept:

1) The farther left liberals preferred Edwards or Kucinich over President Obama. At best most liberal "supporters" supported President Obama as their 2nd or 3rd choice.

2) President Obama's campaign platform was left of center and hardly what could be honestly characterized as a liberal agenda (not that the Republicans didn't try).

3)President Obama's rhetoric made it pretty clear he had not intention of pushing anything more than a left of middle position and that he wanted to unite the nation rather than push it far to the left or divide the nation with harsh tactics.


Now in order to think of progressives as one of President Obama's core support groups, I have to ignore those three major issues. I simply can't do that. Sure many progressive voted for President Obama but far fewer strongly supported him.