[Hoot Gibson]

Pragmatic? As in status quo? As in don't worry about the healthcare system? As in let GM fail and the financial sector crash into ruin? As in don't worry about carbon footprints and continuing reliance upon foreign sources of energy? Obama is not a socialist, thus he has no "brand." He is a fair scales capitalist.

Pragmatic
as in not signing a long series of bills into law that the majority of Americans oppose while ignoring issues about which Americans care most. Pragmatic as in not twisting the arms and bribing members of his own party into passing unpopular bills with no regard to the political viability of those members as candidates for reelection. Pragmatic as in not tripling the annual budget deficit while pursuing an unpopular agenda. Pragmatic as in not hiring extreme left wing politicians almost exclusively to fill key spots in her administration.

In short, Hillary Clinton would have been pragmatic enough to have learned from her own health care fiasco not to have made a series of similar political blunders.

Obama is a socialist and he is a racist. After garnering the most support among white voters by a Democratic presidential candidate in many years, his administration has been the most racially biased in many years. If he wants to have any chance of being reelected, he needs to begin replacing racists and socialists like Eric Holder sooner rather than later. That would be the pragmatic thing to do at this point but finding moderates willing to work in what appears to be a lame duck, socialist administration will not be easy at this point.