...the label that the country is applying to President Obama is not 'liberal' but
Competent
Liberals, Moderates and, yes, Conservatives are always attracted to competence, which, yet again separates the President and his team from Two Shoes and his clown parade.
Link here:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/the-off-brand-presidency/?pagemode=print
The Off-Brand Presidency
He campaigned for activist government, a less confrontational foreign policy, a business-friendly way to a green revolution. A liberal. Or, to use the term favored by those who are afraid of the lingering toxicity of that word – a progressive.
As president, he sent truckloads of money to the rescue of a sick economy, gave most working people the biggest tax cut of their lives and told a foreign audience that his country’s occasional arrogance was no excuse for reflexive anti-Americanism.
President Barack Obama is making it safe to be a liberal again – and showing how meaningless such labels can be. His first lap reveals not so much about him as it does the country he governs: a nation willing to follow a man whose policies they may not fully believe in.