Ha! This from a man who routinely, and often unconstitutionally, used regulations and executive orders to bypass Congress when he didn’t get his way. Methinks his newfound love for institutional stability and lethargic Democracy is a hangover symptom from the election.
“I have not changed Washington the way I wanted to change it,” Obama said. “And what I worry about in our politics is people getting impatient with the slowness of democracy, and the less effective Congress works, the more likely people are to start giving up on the core values and basic institutions that have helped us to weather a lot of storms.”
The president added that while he believed in political reform, institutional stability was key to maintaining a functioning democracy.
“The one thing I’ve learned in this job is that I have really progressive policy beliefs but I’m more conservative when it comes to our institutions,” he said. “I’ve seen enough around the world when it comes to the results of complete revolution or upheaval that it doesn’t always play out well.”
Translation: “I’ve now seen the disaster of my socialist beliefs being implemented firsthand: like in Cuba, Venzuela, Zimbabwe and North Korea, and it scares the heck out of me.”
In case anyone is not fluent in Obamaspeak.
“The one thing I’ve learned in this job is that I have really progressive policy beliefs but I’m more conservative when it comes to our institutions,” he said.
If you took Poli Sci 5 at Wisconsin State-Stevens Point in 1969 you would know exactly what he is talking about and probably agree with him. He is describing a classical conservative position, not what is considered a “conservative” in todays nomenclature. Big difference.