Is Obama conservative?

This question is something I'm going to start addressing hopefully quite a bit. Part of my desire to answer this question is that it is something the MSM seems pretty intent on arguing, that Obama will only be successful if he governs like this is a "center-right" country, a phrase you hear a lot. Indeed, look at the cover of the new Newsweek. Since this general topic has been on my mind, this article is a great place to start. An excerpt:

Conservatives are increasingly sounding like they're stuck in the 1980s, as they warn against the creeping tide of socialism and denounce Obama's tax plan as "welfare." You almost expect to hear John McCain take the stage to a pulsing Richard Marx tune, then start reciting lines from "Red Dawn." It may have reached its apogee when, in her debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin quoted Reagan on the danger that if we're not careful, one day we'll be telling our children and grandchildren about a time when America was free. What was Reagan warning against in that quote? The passage of Medicare, one of the most successful and popular programs in U.S. history, brought to you courtesy of big-government liberals.

When conservatives take stands like these, so far from the American mainstream, the Beltway acolytes of the Church of Centrism never seem to mind. Will a GOP defeat be greeted with columns by Jon Meacham and his ilk instructing Republicans sternly that they need to abandon their ideology and move to the center, lest they permanently alienate themselves from the public?

To give the short answer to my posed question, no, I don't think that Obama will govern as a conservative. Some (Andrew Sullivan, for one) argue that Obama is fundamentally conservative, but I really think that if Reagan, Gingrich, & Bush don't fit into your definition of conservative, then your definition isn't very good.