Obama presents a veiled caution as to journalist news reporting: "I want people to think I am a centrist." Too bad his party membership doesn't agree.

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Obama to a group of journalists:

"This bears on your reporting.   I think that there is oftentimes the impulse to suggest that if the two parties are disagreeing then they're equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. And an equivalence is presented which I think reinforces peoples' cynicism about Washington in general. This is not one of those situations where there's an equivalency."

"As all of you are doing your reporting, I think it's important to remember that the positions that I am taking now on the budget and a host of other issues. if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago or even 15 years ago … would've been considered squarely centrist positions."

Editorial notes:  keep in mind that Obama is the first president in American history who has presented two budget proposals without getting a single supporting vote.  In February of 2011,  he presented his budget to the Senate.  It failed 97 to Zero.  Last month (March of 2012) his budget was presented in the House.  It also failed.   The House vote was 414 to  . . . . . . . . . Zero.  

How does that happen?  Harry Reid did not support Obama's budget in 2011 and refuses to offer a budget for vote,  this year.  Nancy Pelosi,  apparently she did not vote to support Obama's budget in the recent House vote.  

Don't Democrats know how this looks?  Or,  maybe they do not care as much as some would have us believe.  Is there a silent rebellion to this man's radicalism and disrespect for everything traditional and American?  I would think all would understand the bad press resulting from a "zero" vote and Obama has managed to register two such occasions.  

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.