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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I don't think this is accurate, I think Bill and Hillary both are to the left on Obama in key areas like the economy, the environment and healthcare. Jimmy Carter is certainly to the left of Obama and potentially/arguably is JFK.
Obama might be most centrist democratic president in living memory, aside from LBJ maybe.
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I strongly disagree with this, and I'd like to know what you're basing it on.
The only areas that Hillary consistently supported that were left of Obama had to do with unions, who also happened to be some of her of her biggest financial contributors.
Bill Clinton was responsible for much of the de-regulation of the stock market, decreased corporate taxes, free trade agreements, lowered capital gains taxes, etc... Bill Clinton was also in support of heavy oil exploration and building pipelines. He also dismantled the federal welfare program. Clinton was very economically conservative in many ways.
He was very liberal, for his time, in other ways on social issues like gay rights, drugs, and abortion. But once again, everything was relative and his policies would be considered very conservative in today's day and age. For example, don't ask don't tell or his policy of repealing the law which outright banned abortion counselling in federally funded institutions.