What does being a "Liberal" mean? (US)

[Ibby]

I agree. I think he's done a great job as president - but it could have been better, from my point of view. President Obama is actually MORE, not LESS, moderate than Candidate Obama.

[Griff]

Agreed.

On the surveillance state front.

Mr. Crow seems alternately astonished, angered and flattered by the government’s attention. “I’ve had times of intense paranoia,” he said, especially when he discovered that some trusted allies were actually spies.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Ibram

I agree. I think he's done a great job as president - but it could have been better, from my point of view. President Obama is actually MORE, not LESS, moderate than Candidate Obama.

That is what usually happens. During the election, candidates will try to appeal to their specific party base. Once they get elected, they will need to deal with members of the other party and interests that cross party lines.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ibram

I agree. I think he's done a great job as president - but it could have been better, from my point of view. President Obama is actually MORE, not LESS, moderate than Candidate Obama.

I'm thankful for that... the further my President is from either extreme, the better I like it.

[footfootfoot]

That sounds an awful lot like thinking would be involved in answering that question. So it may be a day or two for me to really come up with something sincere as opposed to snappy.

Go grab a few beverages and pull up a chair while I dust off the ol' brain cell and see if I can get it to spark.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

That sounds an awful lot like thinking would be involved in answering that question. So it may be a day or two for me to really come up with something sincere as opposed to snappy.

Go grab a few beverages and pull up a chair while I dust off the ol' brain cell and see if I can get it to spark.

I love to hear you think, so take your time. I've already made note of what I seen that you've done. I am interested to hear what your "sincere" response will be and how much distance there will be between those words and your actions to this point.

For the record, when I have to choose between believing one's actions *or* believing one's words, I almost always choose actions.

[Fair&Balanced]

Today's episode of The Sean Hannity Show has been brought to you by the letter "L." The L stands for "liberal," boys and girls, which is what Sesame Street is trying to turn tykes into with its secret anti-family agenda.

Teaching diversity, resolving personal conflicts peacefully instead of fighting, encouraging gay boys to be prom queens (I missed this episode)....

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Fair&Balanced

Today's episode of The Sean Hannity Show has been brought to you by the letter "L." The L stands for "liberal," boys and girls, which is what Sesame Street is trying to turn tykes into with its secret anti-family agenda.

Teaching diversity, resolving personal conflicts peacefully instead of fighting, encouraging gay boys to be prom queens (I missed this episode)....

"Yeah, I kind of want to take them out back and cap em". Even though this guy is talking about puppets, I kind of found it disturbing that no one called him on that statement.

I wonder what this guy thought of Davey and Goliath, I just find it funny that when a church espouses kindness, understanding, love, etc, conservatives don't say a word. If any kind of secular group says the same think, suddenly it's a 'liberal agenda'.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm thankful for that... the further my President is from either extreme, the better I like it.

Originally Posted by richlevy

"Yeah, I kind of want to take them out back and cap em". Even though this guy is talking about puppets, I kind of found it disturbing that no one called him on that statement.

I wonder what this guy thought of Davey and Goliath, I just find it funny that when a church espouses kindness, understanding, love, etc, conservatives don't say a word. If any kind of secular group says the same think, suddenly it's a 'liberal agenda'.

[BigV]

I laughed out loud to watch Mr Hannity walk right over the woman's line at 4:00.

She says, "the secular humanist liberals believe that human nature is good, and conservatives do not".

Well, dear conservatives, is this really true, you believe human nature is not good?

[infinite monkey]

Here's what's funny: I'm watching this crap on my phone...they're going for farce, right? But on my tv is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Reason always wins, eventually. Don't blink, you might miss it.

[Fair&Balanced]

I dont recall any liberal claiming that he/she is running for president because it is a calling from God, unlike the current crop of conservative Republicans.

Herman Cain: "God said, 'Not yet. I've got something else for you to do.' And it might be to become the president of the United States of America."

Michelle Bachman: "If I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it....When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I've said yes to it....If I am called to serve in that realm I would serve"

Rick Santorum: "It really boils down to God's will. What is it that God wants? ... We have prayed a lot about this decision, and we believe with all our hearts that this is what God wants."

So if God telling them all to run, which one is He endorsing?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Fair&Balanced

I dont recall any liberal claiming that he/she is running for president because it is a calling from God, unlike the current crop of conservative Republicans.

Herman Cain: "God said, 'Not yet. I've got something else for you to do.' And it might be to become the president of the United States of America."

Michelle Bachman: "If I felt that's what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it....When I have sensed that the Lord is calling me to do something, I've said yes to it....If I am called to serve in that realm I would serve"

Rick Santorum: "It really boils down to God's will. What is it that God wants? ... We have prayed a lot about this decision, and we believe with all our hearts that this is what God wants."

So if God telling them all to run, which one is He endorsing?

" But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Obama

[classicman]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The crazy train is up an running.

[BigV]

mercy, you're elusive because you just don't stay on topic. you don't have any compunctions against conflating the most disparate and irrelevant statements. you do this all the time. I want to keep up, but you don't talk in a straight line, with contiguous thoughts. It's frustrating because I bet you have some good ideas, not all the good ideas of course, but the ones you probably have are practically impossible to discern. If I thought you were just being deliberately difficult or nuts, I'd ignore you--I don't think those things.

So, for example, how would you reply to F+B's question? I read your post, it's practically a non-sequitor.