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If Barack Obama is to be a centrist, that means that he is someone that will govern from the right...even in regards to past Republican administrations of Eisenhower, Nixon and (believe it or not) Reagan.
It has been pointed out time and again that as the Republican Party has moved ever rightward, the center did not hold. Democrats have not become more liberal over time but the counter balance of the Republican Party has moved so far right that the balance of the lever itself has shifted to a fulcrum that was once firmly on the right side of the ledger.
I will not be voting for Barack Obama. I will be voting for Dems in down ticket races and demanding that a strongly Dem congress hold an opposition party president in check and to account. If we can't count on a Dem congress to do that, we surely can not count on them to hold a same-party (at least putatively same-party) Barack Obama in check and to account.
I see Obama as the destroyer of all that the Democratic Party stands for. It took Nixon to go to China. It will take a Dem to finally and utterly gut the 4th amendment...and to destory Social Security...and to make the "slavery is freedom" part of 1984 a present day reality.
Obama? I'd rather take my chances with the devil that I know...
