If President Obama is so all-fired liberal, why do most Americans support him?
April 30th, 2009 at 03:17pm Pat Cunningham
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 Barack Obama is a liberal, and everybody knows it.
 Oh sure, conservatives like to pretend that voters didn’t know what they were getting into when they elected Obama president, but that’s nonsense. It’s the conservatives themselves who don’t understand what’s going on. They still think the “liberal” label scares people. It doesn’t.
 As Timothy Egan explains in THIS PIECE, “Obama is making it safe to be a liberal again – and showing how meaningless such labels can be.”
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1. snuss | April 30th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
Hopefully, those who were fooled will become educated before the 2010 elections.
2. LD | April 30th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I sense a disparity of expression and awareness: when words and actions possess a significance that the audience understands, but the commenter does not.
3. Orlando Clay | April 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
snuss wrote: “Hopefully, those who were fooled will become educated before the 2010 elections.”
Apparently, snuss, “they” already got educated in 2006 and 2008 when “they” threw your party out of Congress and the White House, respectively, after being bamboozled by the Bush/Cheney cabal not once, but twice.
4. KR | April 30th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Don’t forget other labels like “Socialist” and “weak”.
The attempt by the GOP to forget that President Obama was elected by a huge majority because the people *want* government to spend money–on our country, not Iraq–is humorous.
5. Barry | May 1st, 2009 at 2:34 am
Obama is a Marxist. As for the false assumption most Americans support him, Most Americans didn’t vote. Also a lot of conservatives sat out the election.
I have yet to hear someone say they wished they voted for Obama. I do however hear more and more people say they wished they DIDN’T vote for Obama.
6. Aaron | May 1st, 2009 at 8:26 am
If so many people support him, why do you have to write a column trying to convince people that people support him?
7. Pat Cunningham | May 1st, 2009 at 8:50 am
Aaron: I do it just to annoy you.
8. Pat Cunningham | May 1st, 2009 at 8:58 am
Barry tells us it’s a “false assumption” that most Americans support Obama. Barry’s evidence: “Most Americans didn’t vote. Also a lot of conservatives sat out the election.”
But, of course, Barry doesn’t know much about polls. He doesn’t know that no less than five of the major polls showing Obama with high approval ratings were conducted among adults in general, not just registered voters.
Now, this is where Barry probably will reply that polls are unreliable or fixed or something.
9. Nelson | May 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I’d like to know why “liberal” became a bad word in the first place.
After looking up the meaning in numerous dictionarys, I find myself proud to be generous, tolerant, broad minded, and in favor of progress (Websters New World Dictionary).
Obviously, I’m not afraid of being called a Liberal.
10. snuss | May 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
There is a difference between “Liberals”, and the Liberal/Socialists currently running the DNC. You can reason with Liberals.
11. David Barrett | May 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 am
snuss,
What in heavens name are you talking about? Can you give us an example of Democrats refusing to listen to reason?
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