Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
by rayiner on Friday July 22, 2022 @07:49AM
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People are remembering Obama for the way he governed, as a polished socially liberal globalist—the guy who sued Catholic nuns to force them to pay for contraception, when there was a government program that would have paid for it—instead of the populist campaign he ran.
On social issues, he signaled that he was solidly within the Midwestern mainstream. He emphasized his Kansas roots. He opposed same-sex but supported civil unions. He distanced himself from the radicalism of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. He was not out at the forefront of anything, and didn’t attack the social values of the Midwesterners he was courting.
In 2008, he railed against big banks and elites. He called for bailing out GM. Here talked about the need to stop illegal immigration: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4656370/user-clip-sen-barack-....
On social issues, he signaled that he was solidly within the Midwestern mainstream. He emphasized his Kansas roots. He opposed same-sex but supported civil unions. He distanced himself from the radicalism of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. He was not out at the forefront of anything, and didn’t attack the social values of the Midwesterners he was courting.