"Drew Lawson" wrote in message
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Morris Dovey writes:

Does that make one a conservative liberal or a liberal conservative?


I've long prefered the phrase from a comic strip (maybe B.C.) that
was reprinted in one of my textbooks:
a radical middle-of-the-roader

"Radical centrist" and the "radical middle" are developing political ideas
that show up in all sorts of contexts. It's part of the "Third Way" group of
political philosophies but it largely rejects the idea of the center as a
compromise position. It works more as a synthesis than a compromise, to the
degree that it does work.

Some people would consider Clinton to be a Third Way politician who
triangulates conflicts to arrive at a balance that mollifies conflict. By
that light Obama is more of a radical centrist, a pragmatist who is focused
more on what should work rather than what will satisfy conflicts, which is
why he ****es off the left almost as often as he ****es off the right. He's
trying to glue it all together by means of rhetorical skill and sharp
political maneuvering.

--
Ed Huntress