This is our first-ever weekly video show featuring writers from Politics Daily's Woman UP blog. Today, Patricia Murphy, Ria Misra, Emily Miller, Bonnie Erbe and I discuss a recent Gallup Poll that suggests many Americans have been unhappily surprised to glean that Barack Obama is a... liberal. (Did they sleep through last year's election?)
Melinda Henneberger is the editor-in-chief of PoliticsDaily.com. She spent 10 years as a reporter for the New York Times, in the paper’s Washington and Rome bureaus... more
JFK a liberal???? ROFLMAO! Read up, dear. JFK cut taxes, expanded the military, UM, got us INTO Viet Nam, came within a whisker of invading Cuba. No, he wasn't a liberal. He hated and feared communism AND socialism. JFK embodied the Democratic Party that left Ronald Reagan, who began his political life as a Democrat.
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kathy
4:37AM Nov 10th 2009
Oh, but they have talked with President Obama. The one thing no one can do is talk Common Sense to Pelosi, because she has none. I'm sorry you dont get it, because one day you are going to be running down the road holding your A@@ yelling "what happened to our Country, they have taken our Freedoms". Anyone who puts the kind of crap in the Health Care Bill that they did is out for something more. Consider it.
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Jen
5:37AM Nov 9th 2009
Melinda, I for one was never surprised. Some were. He campaigned that he would run the government from the middle. So If I understand your comments, he lied, news media presented a "skewed view" and or amrican voters do not do their home work?
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Sandra
5:10PM Nov 9th 2009
Couldn't have said it better myself. He was a liberal when he campaigned; he's still a liberal. He said he would spread the wealth, which denotes socialism. People didn't want to see the truth. They considered his plan to "change" would be good. I for one wasn't fooled. Didn't vote for him and don't want to hear whining from those who did. You got what you asked for.
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Truth
7:06PM Nov 9th 2009
In answer to your question as to whether people were alseep last year, Yes, they were bordering on comatose. Maybe mesmerized is a better description, but the lack of critical thinking was appalling. People believed what they wanted to believe, and Obama told them want they wanted to hear. The paucity of common sense in assessing Obama's political orientation was matched only by Obama's Protean ability to shape shift.
In fairness to the moony eyed who fell for Obama's singular blend of neural linguistic programming, and lies, the naive were served poorly by the media. A more pathetically biased display of promoting a candidate has never occurred this side of the line seperating democracy from the many mutations of Statism. The media was corrupt and complicit, and a majority of Americans let talking heads do their thinking for them. I guess that makes it the voters fault as much as the media.
When the majority becomes uneducated and immoral, democracy fails.
For many of us, who bothered to look, Obama's Marxist pedigree and radical associations were easy to find, which begs the question: why couldn't the media find them?
The voters didn't have the advantage of hindsight, but with Obama's parade of Marxist, Socialist, Communist, and even Mao admiring appointees, the truth about his radical left politics is finally beyond denial.
All of his transcendant rhetoric about being post-racial and post partisan has fallen flat, and it turns out that he is hyper partisan, politically and racially. If he is post anything, he is post-American, with a transnational agenda, and an obvious goal of transferring this nations sovereignty to a world government.
With a forked tongue giving him his exceptional pan-lingual skills, Obama is the perfect frontman for the duplicity of the left, which is why he miraculously replaced Hillary. Soros was a contemporary of Hitler, after all. He knows a charismatic speaker when he hears one.
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sandra
7:12AM Nov 9th 2009
President Obama is not a "liberal" democrat. He is a centrist democrat. He ran on centrist ideas. He is still being controled by the neo-con war mongrals. He abandoned single payer health care right off the bat. He has not closed gitmo. He has sent more American soldiers to Afg. He plans to send more. He stated over and over in the campaign that that is exactly what he planned to do...so where is the surprise? He also said he would get us out of Iraq. We are still there. Obama is a disappointment to true liberals and you dumb ass republican tea party , birthers, kkk members, gun nuts and the like should realize that. Obama said he wanted to unit the dems and the republicans and listen to all sides. Well, he HAS listened to all sides?. And what has he gotten for it? Nothing but insults and disrespect from the repblican side of this government. Obama could send every American in this country a 100,000 dollars and the republicans would turn it down. Republicans should not be so upset with Obama.... he is more like you than you want to admit. True "liberals" should be upset with obama because he is not doing the things Liberals want accomplished and changed. I have often wondered if Republicans were more dangerous in power or out of power and right now their tactics and silly protest( against their own best interst) are making me think the lather.
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Alex Lekas
10:02AM Nov 9th 2009
you may want to consult your political dictionary. Centrist dem would be Bill Clinton, savvy enough to work with a GOP Congress on politically popular things like welfare reform and a balanced budget. Obama has no desire to work with anyone, as though he is emperor rather than president.
That you, as a liberal, are disappointed in Obama is your own fault. That you believe him controlled by a 'con' of any stripe is delusional. This guy targets moderates/conservatives of his own party as with teh DNC ads attacking the blue dogs.
Many of your points highlight what folks meant by experience, or the lack of it. Obama if finding out the hard way that campaigning and governing are vastly different, i.e. Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, single payer.
Frankly, he HAS NOT listened to all sides. His response to those who disagree is "I won" which is true but hardly the phraseology of a uniter. And yes, I would oppose his sending six-figure checks to all Americas because, unlike you apparently, I know where that money is coming from nad it is not Obama's pocket.
"True liberals" would be upset with this administration's affronts to liberty, its whininess in dealing with critics and heavy-handedness in targeting opponents, its disregard for private property and contracts, and its willingness to embrace dictators.
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Steve
11:43AM Nov 9th 2009
Sandra. You are correct. Amid all of the din, caliing Obama a socialist, communist, nazi, liberal, facist, etc., it appears that he is a pragmatic moderate democrat. You are to be commended to have seen through the lies and mistruths.
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nancyskr
12:33PM Nov 9th 2009
Oh my.....what station have you been watching? This man is dangerously left!
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flamingrose40
1:15PM Nov 9th 2009
Wow Sandra, you seem to have had more than your share of the Koolaid!!
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Richard L
1:57PM Nov 9th 2009
It is so very easy to write what you did. Why you ask? Because you have never lived outside of the United States, had children born in a foreign country or be married to a Muslim, read the Koran. Obama is the child of a Muslim. read the book "ISLAM" and learn about reality. As for his promise's NONE have been voted on. It would be great if you read history not today's newspaper. PS Obama's father is a muslim. Only an American born Male father can spawn a President. Senate and Congress can be of foreign born male. READ THE CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!!! Obma is not born of an american MALE. He has no valid Birth Certificate.
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whamhammer
2:42PM Nov 9th 2009
"sandra 7:12AM Nov 9th 2009 President Obama is not a "liberal" democrat. He is a centrist democrat. He ran on centrist ideas. He is still being controled by the neo-con war mongrals. He abandoned single payer health care right off the bat. He has not closed gitmo. He has sent more American soldiers to Afg. He plans to send more. He stated over and over in the campaign that that is exactly what he planned to do...so where is the surprise? He also said he would get us out of Iraq. We are still there. Obama is a disappointment to true liberals and you dumb ass republican tea party , birthers, kkk members, gun nuts and the like should realize that. Obama said he wanted to unit the dems and the republicans and listen to all sides. Well, he HAS listened to all sides?. And what has he gotten for it? Nothing but insults and disrespect from the repblican side of this government. Obama could send every American in this country a 100,000 dollars and the republicans would turn it down."********************
We should've turned down $100,000 for every American if it was offered, who would have that money have come from. Money does come from somewhere before it shows up as a check to you. As far as him listening to both sides, he hasnt and he wont. He only cares about his own agenda, which is what EVERY politician does since the begininning of time. Welcome to the real world.
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John Petrie
4:19PM Nov 9th 2009
Dearest Sandra,
I don't care what kind of polical moniker you attach to His Majesty Obama. He is too far to the left for most Americans. If you don't like it here; move!
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Dr. Mush
4:27PM Nov 9th 2009
You got that right yo. Obama is a fool to continue to panda to the right wing religious nut bags. All he got for his efforts, are lots of racist insults and grief grief grief. These people are self-hating neanderthals. They would sell their mamma down the drain for a bag of dog crap.
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bdyftns
6:55PM Nov 9th 2009
Milinda....you are too funny!! You're a cross between air head Sarah Palin and Pill Pop'in Rush Limbaugh. lol. You first show will be your last. Too funny.
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Bill
8:43PM Nov 9th 2009
We'll the repubs you hate so much will be coming back, because we have all seen the liberal side (20% in the Us BTW, 50% or more are conservatives)with this health care debate. What a bunch of back stabbers they are...wow The Dems will be giving up literally buckets of seats to the repubs in the house and senate, just gifts from Obummer and Pelosi (she was great in the wizard of oz, don't you think?) There are going to be some real landslide elections in 2010 and 2012, we've had these idiots in control of both houses since 2006 and what a disaster and its getting worse everyday. Even Obummer voters are getting hot with him and his crew. The crew he handpicked by the way. He might not have been too bad with a repub congress but not the group he has now, won't work. He signs billions dollar bills everyday, then tells us how great he is with his big smile and how hard hes worked for the bill BS What a phony and thats not just my opinion, everybody is catching on and you will too when you get the facts and see you have been lied to on everything. Don't believe him for a minute...
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johnvibes2
6:50AM Nov 10th 2009
WRONG. Obama had the most liberal voting record in congress which was known BEFORE the election.
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garry402
8:09AM Nov 9th 2009
I like the video format. The discussion reminds me of the coyote ugly scenario of waking up in the morning only to see what you really ended up with.
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Domestic Goddess
7:41AM Nov 10th 2009
Do they make a "morning after" pill for the likes of Obama?? If only it were true........
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Autumn Leaves
8:15AM Nov 9th 2009
Anybody that voted for Obama wasn't listening to what he was saying while he was campaigning. They had to be blind and deaf like, Emily Miller, who thinks Obama is handsome and Michelle is beautiful.