re: #188 piratedan

This particular President can only be as liberal as the legislation that gets passed out of Congress allows. Something that many folks forget in their purity purges from the firebagger side. All things considered, as far as moving the needle, social justice for the LGBT folks across all spectrum of America from the military to marriage rights, Obama has been in front of the curve. As far as other liberal policy is concerned, he hasn’t vetoed anything that I am aware of because it’s too liberal. You want more liberal policies enacted, elect more liberals.

Absolutely and I’ll add another thing about Obama to the liberals who say “He’s the same as McCain/Romney would be”. Would McCain or Romney have appointed judges like Sotomayor or Kagan? No those two justices aren’t in the mold of Bill Brennan or Thurgood Marshall but they are different than Roberts and Scalia, both of whom McCain and Romney said they saw as models and I have little doubt would fill our judiciary with like minded judges. Obama’s a pragmatic guy. Anyone who voted for Obama thinking that this was going to be an instant renaissance of progressivism fools themselves. What Obama has hopefully done and I think succeeded in doing is helping make the country more center to center left on social issues. As I said, his administration needs props for their support of LGBT rights not just nationally but globally especially when you compare him to his immediate predecessor.