middle of the road

Obama doesn't scare me at all. I voted for him and I'm pleased so far with his presidency. But I don't think of him as middle of the road. I see him as well above average and much, much better than what went before him.

Contrary to most of the answers here, I will give you an answer which takes care of the question in the most logical way: If people are afraid of an average, middle-of-the-road President, it is because most of the people you are referring to are FAR from the middle themselves. I am curently of the belief that Americans are primarily afraid of change, and therefore quite conservative. If a policy benefits them they often jump to radical liberalism, only to fall back to a cautious conservatism when it suits them. The current two party system and Right/Conservative versus Left/Liberal mentality is a sham, definitionally anyway. Any person truly in the middle of politics working toward concensus is going to be disliked by a great many people.

I have no problem with a moderate, middle of the road president. I wanted one. We didn't get one. We got a middle to far left president (bordering on far left). And like a previous poster said, just because someone disagrees with President Obama's policies/decisions does not mean they are rascist.

I might ask why this discussion is tagged with the word "racism"? I don't think that disagreeing with Obama's policies makes anyone a racist. In fact, if that is what someone believes, it rather shows that Obama's race is the only thing they are thinking about, which makes them a racist. Racism is defined as making decisions based solely on race. Those could be decisions in someone's favor as well as against them. As to whether an average, middle of the road president would scare me, I would have to say that I can think of only a few presidents who fit that description. Harry Truman would be one, and no, he wasn't scary - he was a man who showed a lot of common sense and honesty. Obama is nowhere near the middle of the road. In fact, he's busy having all the lines painted over again so better start watching which side of the road you're on.

There is no such thing. In order to be president you cannot be either average or middle of the road. You have to be exceptional at several things and be passionate about your views. I would be very upset with my fellow voters if we elected an average person to be president.

Hugo Chavez and company in Latin America didn't seem to take him too serious, as a matter of fact they made him look like a fool IMO.

I must ask what exactly to yourself constitutes average middle of the road President?

Average and middle of the road are not the same thing. Average means a person of no exceptional abilities. Middle of the road refers to a person's politics-neither too far left nor too far to the right. Lumping average and middle of the road together is like saying apples and oranges are the same fruit. I like a middle of the road president because he does not follow the extreme political paths of either the far left or the far left. I do not like an average president since the president should be the best that the country has.

I really don't believe any politician is truly a middle of the road candidate... they are either left wing or right wing... they just play to those voters who are in the middle of the road to garner votes!