Harry Belafonte Says Obama Lacks "Moral Compass"

[BlueCaliDem]

355. Liberal is the generic word for anything not Republican these days.

I'm a Liberal, but not a FireDogBagger type of Liberal. I'm a Pragmatic progressive who understands the ugly political realities of our government, and that the president is only as strong as a cooperative Congress, because the real power is concentrated, as our Founders tried to make clear to us, in the "of, by, for the people" branch of government, and that's Congress.

I support our president - who is known as the most progressive Democratic president since LBJ, btw - as opposed to falling for regressive Libertarian la-la screeches by the most conservative U.S. Rep since 1937.

Then you have the Liberal Left, the DK rhetoric supporters, the Glenn Greenwald Liberal/Libertarian hybrids, Truthdig, Hamsher, Michale Moore kvetchers who are constantly undermining a Democratic president because they say they thought they were voting for a Liberal when he never ran as one. But then again, that would depend solely on their view what a Liberal is supposed to be.

I have no problem people pushing this president to the left, but I do have a problem when all their kvetching demoralizes their core members, and Independents catch on and rush to support another Regressive instead of more PROgressives - as we'd seen on Nov. 2, 2010, because that defeats our purpose as Liberals and Progressives, doesn't it?