Reply #5: Those who attack you for your quite true statements are missing the point. Whether it is

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possible for a liberal to be elected to the White House in these times (the obvious answer is NO) is not what you are talking about.

What you are saying IS that Obama is nowhere close to being the wild-eyed, radical liberal he was portrayed by the media. In fact, he has done very little that could be considered even moderately progressive. At best, he mouths liberal platitudes at times while he is governing from way right of (what should be) the middle.

Those who support him unconditionally are settling for less-reich-then-Bush and are so happy about that that they refuse to acknowledge the facts. We simply are not speeding reichward as fast as we were for the last eight (or more) years.

Your points are what someone who pretends to be "liberal" would not do what Obama has done on those issues, and many others.

They are correct in saying that you do not know what a progressive Prez would do because there has never been anything close to one in office. Maybe using the term "should" instead of "would" would enable them to understand. Pity that we will never know what a true Lib would do.