Is Barack Obama a Tory? Or another fascist prick who murders teenagers for having the wrong father?

[Joseph Tracy]

I don't buy it. FDR was a moderate reformist. Obama is Romney with a different style. Romney's health care, Republican military imperialism with drones, bailer of billionaires, friend of big oil and mountaintop removal in an age of global warming, no democratic money to oppose Ryan and endorser of all laws for a police state: NDAA, amnesty for spying on private citizens, amnesty for torture, Guantanamo still open, more immigrants deported than Bush, more survellance powers to NSA, silent endorsement of police brutality to address occupy protests. Traditionally these things are associated with dictators and fascism. Obama is a logo for the American war machine and the corporatocracy. If McCain did the exact same things, the Democrats  would be outraged. 
On Sep 24, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> ... 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