Is Barack Obama a Tory?

[Dave Monroe]

... the current presidential election as one between Romney - whom he
sees as man with an Ayn Rand-like philosophy of personal
responsibility to the point of divisiveness - and Obama, a Benjamin
Disraeli-like candidate, whom Sullivan views as believing in the
obligation of the coherence of the nation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19577434

There’s a better label for Obama than conservative: Tory. The
President is no kind of revolutionary. The change we can believe in is
the change needed so things can remain much as they were. This is one
reason why he has disappointed what remains of the Democratic left.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2012/08/is-barack-obama-a-tory/

... Obama is, in my view, the conservative reformist of my dreams.
Almost the entire Tory party in Britain would now fit comfortably in
the Democratic Party - and Cameron is clearly closer to Obama than to
Romney. In fact, there is no mainstream conservative party in the West
even close to the GOP's fundamentalist, revolutionary populism.

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/americas-tory-president.html