Obama is to the right of Bush? So says Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate

I'm halfway interested in seeing this new suspiciously-timed "documentary" called "2016: Obama's America," but I'm bracing for a lot of propaganda. We all know conservatives have their share of gripes with the president over problems he inherited from his predecessor -- 'hey, why isn't the economy perfect already?' -- but some of the titles the president gets called have no basis in reality. Socialist? Communist? Anti-gun? C'mon people, at least keep your criticisms in the realm of sane.

A few months ago, I got to meet Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, who hit the president from the left. She called Obama to the right of Bush in some respects. If I remember her criticisms correctly, here's a couple.

Anti-war liberals will note that more U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan in the past couple years than in all of the nine years before them combined. Obama's troop surge is a necessary evil, say some. The hardcore anti-war folks call it misguided, and whichever way you slice it, Obama has sent more troops into Afghanistan than Bush did (I think). Hey, Google it.

Gun control is not one of Obama's key priorities, despite all the silly rhetoric that came from Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann prior to the Obama election. They said Obama would take your guns away, and gun fans began stocking up on bullets. He hasn't touched guns, even after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford in Tucson, but that hasn't quelled fears within the NRA.

Here's another way Obama has stood to the right of Bush: deportations. Yes, Obama recently made nice with Latinos by offering a kind of temporary amnesty to young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, through no fault of their own. But before that, Obama had deported more immigrants in four years than Bush did in eight. Don't take my word for it. Google that shit.

I think there are other examples out there. I'm not praising or criticizing the president for any of the above decisions, but I would emphasize to conservatives -- stop painting the guy as an ultra-lefty. With important exceptions such as healthcare, he's been pretty darn conservative on some key issues.