The more things have changed, the more they stayed the same. Obama is still a socialist, and tehh White House admitted it via Jay Carney: WH Spokesman: Americans Want Something that ‘Spreads the Sacrifice and Spreads the Prosperity’
"Americans are not like -- 'I demand this, you know, I draw the red line here and I draw this in the sand.' They just want us to get something done that's sensible, that spreads the sacrifice and spreads the prosperity."The federal government was set up by the states, not the other way around, and certainly not to "spread the prosperity".