Obama: No Time to Lurch to the Left

Democrats will not have time to even accomplish many of the more outlandish things John McCain says will happen as a result of single-party control of Congress and the White House, Barack Obama said in an interview.

“There are a lot of Democrats who may be elected who may have made a commitment to their constitutents to be centrist,” Obama said. “I don’t think they’re going to want to have big, sudden lurches to the left.”

Obama named the economy and taxes, health care, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as his top priorities, and indicated he expected them to be time-consuming during a potential new administration.

“Those things are going to take up a huge amount of time when we’re also trying to stabilize the financial markets,” the Illinois Democrat said during the interview with a Colorado TV affiliate. “I don’t think we’re going to have time to engage in a bunch of crazy things that the McCain campaign specifically has suggested we might.”

Watch the video of the interview here: