Hate Quote by Cenk Uygur

I've never seen Barack Obama as a progressive, just someone a bit more centrist, and not as right leaning as Hillary Clinton. Obama may…

— Rob Kall

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

— Glenn Beck

Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than…

— Paul Krugman

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

— Anna Quindlen

My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford…

— Shelby Steele

In 2008, Clinton and Obama were similar politicians. Obama was definitely advertised as the more progressive candidate, and that's part of why more progressive…

— Rebecca Traister

You cannot call yourself a progressive while continuing to associate yourself with an organization like AIPAC that has often been the antithesis of what…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I've heard [Bernie] Sanders comments, and it's really caused me to wonder who's left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Under his…

— Hillary Clinton

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying…

— Tariq Ali

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

— Nina Easton

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

— David Lammy

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because…

— Cornel West