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Liberals? Progressives? Just Call Them Control Freaks

downtherabbithole Wrote: Jul 29, 2010 7:28 AM
After all the nasty mean name calling from the left, what so called democrat leaders Peolsi, Reid, Kerry, Gore, Hilary Clinton had said about President Bush he never responded in kind, just the opposite. I felt he tried too hard to stay above the fray, and not demean the office of the Presidency. While Obama can't move past the name calling and nastiness, has there been one speech that Obama's given where he didn't try to blame all his failed policies or mistake on some other party, either Bush, Republicans, tea party members, the media, Fox news, corporations, Wall Street, the Supreme Court, Bondholders? There has not been one time besides his inauguration that I felt Obama was president of "all the people', he makes it abundantly...

Liberals have been looking for a new name, most likely driven by the uncharacteristically sensible realization that most Americans reject their big-government philosophy.

When the Gallup poll asked Americans last year whether they considered themselves conservative, moderate or liberal, only 21 percent said they were liberal, while 40 percent said they were conservative.

Nor was this plurality of the right confined to red states. Self-professed conservatives outnumbered self-professed liberals in every state of the Union -- from Massachusetts to Hawaii.

In the face of this, some advocates of big government now call themselves progressives -- without specifying exactly where it is...

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