ERBetelgeuse wrote:
If Bush is a conservative what does that make William F Buckley? 

Dead and LONG gone.

I agree with BraveJohn: Obama is very much in the DLC mold and is not a "liberal" per se. And he, - unlike GW Bush - didn't campaign as something he wasn't.

Bush managed to lie about both how liberal he was and how conservative he was simultaneously during the same campaign and he fooled plenty of people with both lies.