Last night on one of the talking head shows Dick Morris casually stated that Obama is not a radical. Perhaps not. But consider that according to recent polling, Obama’s positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:
- Obama supports giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
- Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions
- Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions
- Obama would cut funding for research and development of “unproven” missile defense systems
- Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government
- Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children
- Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortions
Moreover, Obama
- would talk without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror
- is the only U.S. senator to vote against the language of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act
- supports giving foreign terrorists habeas rights
- contends William Ayers is a mainstream member of the community
- for twenty years belonged to a church whose pastor, Obama’s mentor, was prone to making, well, somewhat radical statements
- plans to raise payroll, income, capital gains and estate taxes
- despite recent rhetoric, never opposed a gun ban
- has received the following ratings:
NARAL — 100%NEA — AACORN — 100%Planned Parenthood — 100%National Taxpayers Union — FFamily Research Council — 0%Citizens Against Government Waste — 13%NRA — F
Obama may not be a radical, but the National Journal’s assessment that he’s the most liberal member of the U.S. senate is well-deserved. Nonetheless, I’d like to know how Morris defines “radical.”