Thomas Frank: How the Right Wing Hijacked Rage Over the Economic Collapse and Swindled America

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19. Who called Obama "a liberal Democrat?" The far right? The MSM? Tom Frank? The author of

Tom Frank's book, Jefferson Morley?

In contrast to JFK who expressly called himself a liberal
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Address-of-John-F-Kennedy-upon-Accepting-the-Liberal-Party-Nomination-for-President-New-York-New-Yor.aspx
it does not appear that Obama ever called himself a liberal.

Can anyone point to an instances in which Obama said that he is or was a liberal?

Obama has called himself a Centrist. No one can define what that means and no one has done so. But whatever it means, it means that he is not a liberal.

Certainly, the nutty descriptions given to Obama by the Tea Party members and other loons doesn't make Obama a liberal.

And no one who is intellectually honest can claim to believe that a politician with a (D) after their name is automatically a liberal. Even Joe Lieberman (former-D, and almost Vice-President) would probably admit to knowing that.

Why should anyone follow the lead of MSM pundits and call Obama a liberal just because he is a President who does not have an (R) after his name?

The Great Swindle did not merely involve the transfer of the country's wealth and future to the super-rich. They also stole a portion of the language so that now even adults of at least normal intelligence can say without thinking that Obama is a liberal. At most, He-who-is-not-Gringrich is not a registered Republican.