Why do people keep referring to Obama as a "moderate"?

Question

Don't get me wrong, he seems like a mostly honest and genuine guy, but he sides with the left on practically every issue.

The first person to answer has illustrated my point. She referred to him as a "moderate democrat" without providing any evidence whatsoever. Fact of the matter is, he votes with his party 99% of the time. He is not a moderate.

http://greghartnett.com/where-obama-stands-2/

Kawaii, did you even read the sources that you posted? They contain the SAME information as my post. Obama's voting record is overwhelmingly liberal, and your attempts to disprove this have the opposite effect.

Answer 1

Because the liberals don't like the term liberal. Anyone who votes 'liberal' 99% of the time and wants the government to decide what we need, don't need, how much of our hard-earned money they take from us to further their agenda to control our lives from birth to grave. That person is not moderate. He and She are both far-left, over the edge liberals.

Liberals want to enslave people convincing them that they cannot survive without being controlled by 'Big Brother Government".

Answer 2

A moderate Democrat. Why don't people realize that there are more moderates in this country than extremists?

Edit: LMAO--you cited a blog as a source. Here's a few not-for profit orgs that provide his voting records. Good lord. I love it when people think blogs are sources.

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Barack_Obama.htm

http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BS030017

Answer 3

Moderate= like in moderation Hmmm good question seems he stands pretty firm on most issues nothing moderate about that.

Answer 4

Compared to the other dems, he may appear to be more moderate. I agree that he is a left wing liberal loony.

Answer 5

I refer to him as scum.