Former NBC host Chuck Todd declared today that President Barack Obama was not in fact a liberal, but was merely black.
“The only reason people think Obama was liberal is because he’s black” – @ChuckTodd on Monday on the So What with @ChrisCillizza podcast:
Todd: “What policy was he that liberal on, Chris? It’s one of the biggest-”
Cillizza: “It’s because he was black.”
Todd: “Thank you. The only… pic.twitter.com/5DjSjfQ7vG— Brent Baker
(@BrentHBaker) June 22, 2026
“The only reason people think he’s a liberal is because he’s black,” Todd declared on a podcast with Chris Cillizza.
Todd asked, “What policy was he liberal on?”
There are a thousand possibilities, but here are four policies that were certainly liberal, which Todd either forgot about or doesn’t believe are liberal.
- Obamacare: Obama’s signature legislative measure forced Americans to buy health insurance. Defending this position before the Supreme Court, his administration argued that they could force people to eat broccoli. Also, the bill expanded Medicaid massively. The law also socialized the student loan industry.
- Contraception mandate: The Obama administration decided that the Affordable Care Act required nuns to pay for contraception coverage. The law required all employers who offer health insurance to cover 100% of the cost for “Women’s Preventive Care.” Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services interpreted this to include every type of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraception, including morning-after contraception and sterilization. When a family-owned business (Hobby Lobby) objected, the Obama administration tried to narrow the concept of religious liberty, arguing that Americans forfeit their free exercise rights when they enter into commerce. Then the Obama administration also fought the Little Sisters of the Poor on this all the way to the Supreme Court.
- A national policy of boys in girls’ bathrooms: Obama’s Education Department ordered all public schools to allow boys into girls’ bathrooms if those boys identify as girls.
- The $787,000,000,000 stimulus bill: This was big-government liberalism by any definition, and Obama signed it in his first month in office. The media all called the stimulus “historic” because it was so big.
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I am sure the reader can come up with plenty more, but these are the ones that come to my mind first.