Anyone who thinks being liberal is bad reveals himself to be either a poser, a hoser, or a moron.

It’s not so much that it’s bad, but I’ve tended to notice that people who consider themselves “progressive” tend to think that the only solutions to problems with any valitidy are theirs.

Since when does this equate to that? It is taking a term, ‘liberal’, and proclaiming that the statement ‘Most liberal senator’ is the same as saying ‘the worst senator’.
Would ‘the most Conservative’ senator even raise an eyebrow? Likely just get, “Yes, and?” And yet, ‘Most LIBERAL’ is supposed to raise, I don’t know, cries of alarm?

it doesn’t bother me a bit. i’m happy to be a liberal. i’m proud of the progress that liberalism has done for this country and i’m proud what liberalism has done for other countries.
bush is the biggest buffoon and people knew it but still voted for him. liberal beats buffoon every day.
“BTW, I wonder if Boren will vote for McCain in the secrecy of the voting booth.”
can’t read?

However, Boren will vote for Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August and will vote Democratic on Nov. 4.

considering that his constituents are more conservative, i doubt that he would have any reason to lie about voting for obama in november.

Liberals have been responsible for the minimum wage; the Child Labor Act; labor rights including collective bargaining; unemployment insurance; environmental laws; food safety laws; workplace safety laws; Social Security; Medicare; women’s right to vote; universal public education; the National Weather Service; scientific research; product labeling/truth in advertising laws; National Parks and Monuments including Death Valley, the Blue Ridge, Boulder Dam, Bull Run, Mount Rushmore and Cape Cod; public universities; bank deposit insurance; regulation of banks and stock brokerage firms; earned income tax credit; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Family and Medical Leave Act; Consumer Product Safety Commission; Public Broadcasting; Americans with Disabilities Act; women’s rights; civil rights; the fight against totalitarianism; the Marshall Plan; the Peace Corps; the G.I. Bill (and the new proposed G.I. Bill, opposed by McCain and other conservatives); housing loans for vets; FHA loans; rural electrification; the Interstate Highway System and the Internet.
Imagine America without these contributions, the country we’d have if conservatives had had their way, for they opposed many if not most of the progressive laws, acts, and innovations listed above–and even though they, like everyone else, have benefited tremendously from the historical accomplishments of liberals, they think they can get their own backward-looking agendas across by trying to cast liberals as the bad guys.
I think that’s a technique that’s lost its effectiveness in the face of the abysmal failures of the “compassionate conservatives” who’ve held the reins for the past eight years, the same people who told us invading Iraq would make for lower oil prices and that Iraqi oil would pay for the war.

There are, of course, many people who believe the world began to fall apart with Social Security, the WPA, and, shudder, racial equality and women’s rights. My recently departed aunt from Boone, North Carolina voted Republican all her life (1910-2004) after age 22 because before the WPA she could get workers to pick her apples for 50 cents a day, but after WPA she had to pay first a dollar a day, then two, then five, going out of business in the 1940′s when she simply refused to pay 60 cents an hour for “uneducated trash workers.” Even in her 90′s she was loudly objecting to having to pay tax on her Social Security checks just because her income was over $500,000 a year, and informing clerks in stores their lives and work were “meaningless” as they checked out her purchases. She was, incidentally, a very devout Presbyterian. Several people came to her funeral.
But back to Obama. Isn’t it nice to know what we’re getting for a change?

“And yet, ‘Most LIBERAL’ is supposed to raise, I don’t know, cries of alarm? ”
Of course it does, why do you think that the left always try to paint themselves as “moderate” at election time?
If it wasn’t so bad, why did Obama forbid people from calling him liberal?

because he doesn’t like the use of labels. it divides people.

it’s like the REPUBLICAN brand today… not to many of them are bragging about that in their campaign commercials.
“why do you think that the left always try to paint themselves as “moderate” at election time?”
why does mccain have to act like the maverick to even get noticed?

This claim of ‘most liberal’ is laughable. It comes from the same mag that said Kerry was ‘most liberal’ in the last election.
More liberal than Barbara Boxer? Ted Kennedy? Bernie Sanders?
And the criteria was the same as last time. Very carefully cherry-picked votes – to put a thin veneer of respectablility on an obvious hatchet job.
And these days, liberal is starting to look pretty good. The last ‘liberal’ we had in office ran a budget surplus and didn’t get us into wars with deceptive statements.

Most politicians try to paint themselves as ‘moderate’ at election time. Its a way to get the middle of the road ‘independent’ voters.
So, is McCain running as an ‘arch conservative’?