Obama leading U.S. ideological shift
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Far more than anything else, President Barack Obama's first 100 days have been marked by an ideological shift to traditional Democratic policies in tackling the U.S. recession.
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Inheriting the worst economic crisis in decades, Obama and many Democrats are advocating big spending increases on healthcare, education and green technology, calling them investments needed to rebuild the economy.
In so doing, he has set the United States on a path toward reversing eight years of the Bush administration's conservative policies.
"Bush administration's conservative policies"? That's so unfair (not that I would expect fairness from the liberal media).
Bush administration's fiscal policies were nothing but "conservative"—they were neo-cons. Former President Bush is to be admired for a lot of things (such as refusing to waste federal dollars for dead baby research), but balanced budget and reducing spending (the traditional conservative values) aren't among them.
Well, in any case, Obama's 4 years will be a test for whether liberal policies can truly work for this nation. It may work (or so it is claimed) for small European nations that do not need to defend their own borders (because U.S. is doing that job, mostly), but then, even the worst (in terms of efficiency) socialism can work on small scale.
I just hope they'll stop blaming Bush (and his "conservative" policies) in a year or two.