{"id":95947,"date":"2026-06-22T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/chuck-todd-people-only-think-obama-was-liberal-because-hes-black-he-governed-more-closely-to-bush-than-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:43:05","slug":"chuck-todd-people-only-think-obama-was-liberal-because-hes-black-he-governed-more-closely-to-bush-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/chuck-todd-people-only-think-obama-was-liberal-because-hes-black-he-governed-more-closely-to-bush-than-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd: People Only Think Obama Was Liberal Because He&#8217;s Black &#8212; He Governed More Closely To Bush Than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Chuck Todd said today on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@chriscillizza\">Chris Cillizza&#8217;s &#8220;So What&#8221; podcast<\/a>:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHUCK TODD: Obama radicalized the far right; it was the same thing. The far right viewed Obama as some left-winger when Obama was basically a degree more liberal than Bill Clinton.   CHRIS CILLIZZA: Temperamentally a moderate, right? Probably liberal on policy, but temperamentally a moderate.   CHUCK TODD: What policy was he that liberal on, Chris? It&#8217;s one of the biggest&#8211;  CHRIS CILLIZZA: It was because he was black.  CHUCK TODD: Thank you. The only reason people think he was liberal is because he&#8217;s black.   Like it&#8217;s this, he governed more closely to George W. Bush than Donald Trump.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/22\/chuck_todd_the_only_reason_people_think_obama_was_liberal_is_because_hes_black_--_he_governed_more_closely_to_bush_than_trump.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Todd said today on Chris Cillizza&#8217;s &#8220;So What&#8221; podcast: CHUCK TODD: Obama radicalized the far right; it was the same thing. The far right viewed Obama as some left-winger when Obama was basically a degree more liberal than Bill Clinton. CHRIS CILLIZZA: Temperamentally a moderate, right? Probably liberal on policy, but temperamentally a moderate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3130,1154,11785,6094,2872,28469,2011,454,470,22,1897,321,2010,14069,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}