The NY Times gets it wrong in this OpEd.....

[Aviation Pro]

...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.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Conservatives are not attracted to competence. They are afraid of it!

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, the abuse of terminology and connotation is outrightly *Orwellian* = PsyOps B.S.

:puke:

[tularetom]

2. In the simplistic minds of the print and broadcast media

Every issue must be framed in terms of "liberal" and "conservative". Or liberal v. conservative. Every public figure, every policy debate, every news item must be cast in terms of a liberal or a conservative stance.

And of course "liberal" equates to "Unamerican" in this code.

You must be "liberal" or "conservative". You cannot be "competent". That doesn't fit in the boxes.

[zbdent]

3. hmm ... a "sorta liberal" left a surplus to a "conservative" (touted by the Repukes

as the second coming of Reagan) ...

the "conservative" left the largest debt in the history of our nation to a leftish "liberal" ...

and they scream at him for trying to fix the problem???