Your anti-Obama memes are wearing thin.

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197. You, aparently, don't know what liberal means, either.

Liberal can mean a lot of things. It has different meanings in different spheres, such as in religion, economics, philosophy, and political science. Its meanings in each those aforementioned areas is more or less well defined.

In a political sense, liberalism, at the least, insists that the government not dictate morality. By that standard, the administration has upheld liberal values on many occasions.

But people also use it in a broad, general sense to try to describe a consistent outlook on a wide range of unrelated political questions and public policy positions. This runs into problems quickly. The choices for every issue don't always fit well into a "liberal" frame. The entire spectrum of questions about government, politics, and society aren't always sensibly understood in terms of "liberal" and "conservative". Party politics gets into myriad questions of public policy and governance that have little or no direct relationship with conservatism or liberalism in any truly meaningful way. For instance, questions about whether or not to allow the SEC to regulate derivatives, or whether to increase or decrease funding for diplomatic missions overseas have scarcely any connection to traditional definitions of liberal or conservative.

What's the "liberal" perspective on the TPP? As you would have it, the liberal position is clearly against it. This is exactly the kind of amorphous definition of "liberal" that renders the word practically meaningless today.