Is it safe for us to call ourselves Liberal again?

[CTyankee]

After all, a new polls says that lots of people say Obama is a "liberal."

But now the word sounds different. I'm beginning to think we don't need to fear coming out and calling ourselves liberals any more (except in the Deep South). I for one now prefer the term Progressive because the opposite of it is regressive and I just LOVE to call REpublicans that (ya know, like a toddler who "regresses" on potty training!).

So, people saying Obama is a liberal may not be such a bad thing any more. But leave it to the MSM to tut-tut about it -- always the last to pick things up, aren't they?

[peace frog]

1. Liberal ain't what it used to be

What passes for liberal today is mighty damned conservative by earlier standards.

[BlooInBloo]

2. I never stopped. I refused to wuss out and give republicans the word...

cravenly substituting "progressive" in its place.

[CTyankee]

6. Well, I never had to wuss out either. I'm in New Haven, a liberal citadel.

But I do like Progressive because it sounds like it is forward thinking. I don't find Liberal a bad thing, tho.

[valerief]

3. I think liberal now means "not batshit crazy." nt

[NYC_SKP]

4. I want to own the words "patriot" and "patriotic".

Which were so wrongly appropriated by those who were neither.

To the winners go the spoils.

I say we keep liberal AND take a patriot, patriotic, and patriotism.

It's patriotic to care about your fellow man and to fight oppression and tyranny, which is what liberals have been trying to do all along, right?

:patriot:

[Odin2005]

5. I always call myself a liberal, mainly because the "purists" ruined the term "progressive".

I AM AN OBAMA LIBERAL, DAMMIT!!!

[BlooInBloo]

7. That too. If being a "true progressive" means I have to be like those who self-proclaim it...

Then call me a fucking liberal.

[msongs]

8. between you and obama only one of you can be truly called liberal nt

[Odin2005]

12. BS. Obama is a liberal.

[ananda]

9. Obama is NOT liberal by any stretch.

I know. I'm liberal, loud and proud!

[dmosh42]

10. I would say a 'corporatist liberal'....

meaning we can be liberal, unless it might cost the big corporations on the bottom line.

[Echo In Light]

11. Temporary pendulum swing/all part of the Divide & Rule. I prefer Leftist, however

;)