re: #83 leftynyc

Ah - you’re speaking much “larger” than I was. I was really just comparing Pres Obama vs SOS Clinton during the primary wars. Although I always felt they were both moderates, Pres Obama was considered more liberal than SOS Clinton except on this one issue.

You really have no way of classifying activity as holistically ‘left wing’ or ‘right wing’ based on a self-contained sample size of two. It doesn’t really make any sense.

We can say from that sample that Obama was in many senses more hawkish. Calling him more left or right wing on this issue is putting the cart before the horse.