Who is the Real Barack Obama?

Lanny Davis (former special counsel to Bill Clinton and columnist) in a WSJ article "Blame the Left for Massachusetts" is in denial about who is the real Barack Obama by suggesting that Obama needs to get back to "the New Politics/bipartisan aspirations" that are his real beliefs. Davis writes that Obama has somehow relinquished his leadership position to the "purists on the left of the Democratic Party". This is nonsense.



The ideals and promises of the "Campaign Obama", which espouse bipartisanship, a new morality, transparency, compromise, balanced budget, no earmarks and all those other high ideals are like a hologram; nice to look at but nothing was ever actually there.


The "Reality Obama" can be gleaned from his own writings in two books, early speeches, voting records in Illinois and the U.S. Senate, associates from college through part of the presidential campaign and appointments to his administration. They tell the story of the "Reality Obama" who was far from bipartisan, whose core beliefs are locked into major social and economic change that are very left-wing in nature and who has learned and practiced the ways of backroom politics from the time he was a Community Organizer in Chicago. Redistribution of wealth, big government knows best and a single-payer government run health care system have been part of Obama's core beliefs; they are not aberrations somehow imposed upon him by far left ideologues.


Voters in New Jersey, Virginia and, most remarkably, Massachusetts have figured this out even while Lanny Davis, and the leftwing Democrats, either haven't or just refuse to admit it for reasons of political spin.