because the media has spent decades making it seem like a dirty word. Yet, on individual issues many Americans take liberal stands.

Republican campaigns have turned both words into meaningless labels.

Obama is a lot of things, liberal is not one of them.

The corporate media will not do that for us.

We have to start engaging in political conversation with Americans that are tuned out of politics. We have to find a way to stoke their self interest in what it means to be an American, and how we can protect our way of life. Make it patriotic again to pay attention.

I realize that discussing politics is considered rude by many in this country, but if we don't start educating people we will continue down this path, and there's a good possibility that many Americans will blame liberal economic policies.

Simply spending more money is not necessarily liberal values in action (esp. in America). If that money is increasingly diverted to conservative interests (corporate and the wealthy) and away from liberal interests (middle class, working class, and poor) then it's NOT liberal policies being espoused and imposed or liberal values being pursued.

So many right wingers equate massive spending with "liberal", and the thinking just stops right there. Tragic and sad.

1. Supports increased military & security spending
2. Supports the Patriot Act instead of repealing it.
3. Signed the 2012 NDAA (yes with a nice letter attached)
4. Supports the war on drugs
5. Continued the Bush tax cuts for the ultra rich.
6. Expanded the war in Afghanistan.
7. Expanded the drone killings in Pakistan and other countries.
8. Has corporate ghouls from Monsanto and Goldman Sachs etc in his administration.


Just because the neocons have gone all Christian NAZI on us does not make what Obama does liberal!

21% of Democrats thought Santorum was too liberal. 19% of Democrats also thought Romney was too liberal.

Only 5% of Republicans thought Santorum was too liberal. I hate to say it, but there appears to be about 20% of Democrats polled in that survey who are completely clueless.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/152954/Half-Say-Obama-Liberal-Agree-Issues.aspx?utm_source=add%2Bthis&utm_medium=addthis.com&utm_campaign=sharing#.T0ebqHvZQBQ.twitter

... creating and publishing the results of misleading, biased and incomprehensible polls as long as I can remember.

Of course, this is like what you can see anywhere on the net, MORONS who apparently don't know the ACTUAL MEANING of the words Marxist or Socialist, insisting Obama is one.

In reality, he's a center-right moderate at best.

than center

Conservatives have turned the country so far to the right, that Obama's policies are considered too liberal by a majority.
How can that be? Political culture has been on a rightward drift since Reagan. Talk radio acts as the propaganda arm of the GOP and the media's tendency to offer "balanced" stories allows manipulation, which conservatives use to maximum effect.