Anybody who thinks that Barack Obama is a Socialist or a Democrat should ask themselves the following questions

Why is Barack Obama now spending 50% more on the military than GW Bush ever did? 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/military-spending-1962-to-date.html 

Why did Barack Obama institute a Healthcare policy designed by Big Healthcare and Big Pharma to maximise their profits? 
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/29/baucus-thanks-wellpoint-vp-liz-fowler-for-writing-health-care-bill/
Why didn't he institute policies that would make Healthcare more efficient and affordable instead?
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-affordable-care-act-should-be.html

Why hasn't Barack Obama thrown any senior bankers in jail for their multiple crimes of Libor Fixing, large scale money laundering, mortgage fraud, robosigning etc.?
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-massive-criminality-of-big-banks.html

Why instead does he insist that the big banks keep all of their over $780bn of annual government and Federal Reserve subsidies to the detriment of smaller much better managed smaller banks? 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-780bn-of-annual-subsidies-to-big.html 

Why hasn't he reinstated Glass Steagal? 
Why does he continue to allow the big banks to hold the country to ransom? 

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/shut-big-banks-down-stop-them-holding.html

Why does he allow the Federal Reserve to go on printing $1tn a year, which is helping no one except the very wealthy and making every one else poorer? 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/some-charts-on-jobs-and-wages.html 

Why is he allowing the Federal Reserve to pump up the price of food and gas? 
70% of February's reported inflation was due to increases in the price of food & gas. 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-2tn-of-excess-bank-reserves-is.html

Why does he allow the Federal Reserve to pursue policies that will result in the taxpayer being handed a $5tn bill?
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/there-is-no-way-out-for-federal-reserve.html

Why has Barack Obama not taken away the government subsidies for big oil, when big oil has had a decade of record profits? 

Why did Barack Obama hand the middle class and below a huge $200bn a year tax hike, while not touching the $200bn a year of Corporation Tax loopholes, tax breaks and dodges used by large Corporations. 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-deal-obamas-corporate-sell.html

Why did Barack Obama not touch the over $1.3tn a year of Corporate Welfare? 
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html

Why has Barack Obama not forced big pharma to reduce the price of prescription drugs (or go generic much earlier), when America pays by far the highest prices in the world? 

Why does Barack Obama insist on giving Monsanto unconstitutional privileges that make them above the Law? 
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_the_monsanto_protection_act_seize_congress/
http://ppjg.me/2013/03/27/monsanto-receives-gift-from-the-senate-house/ 
Barack Obama has now signed the Monsanto Protection Act.