Don't worry, you are not the guy I'd ask to "Besides, I could give you the answer to all the Secrets of the Universe and you'd STILL claim that I'm evading a response."
First of all, who could trust your answers or explanations?!?!

..and John Locke had a few good ideas..but considering slaves as property wasn't one of them....even Karl Marx clocked him for being a hypocrite for that! (Maybe that's why you like him so much).

Funny, that Bobert probably didn't know that about your idol, being as Locke was also a huge investor in the 'Royal African Company' The MAJOR slave traders. He also was a participant in drafting the 'Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina' (Bobert country)which established a feudal aristocracy and gave a master absolute power over his slaves...AND was quoted in the Constitution(well almost)..his phrase 'life liberty and the pursuit of property', was changed to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness'....because in Locke's version 'property meant slaves!!

Enough about Locke, your hero....In you post you gave yourself wiggle room to spin either way, whether you thought JFK was a liberal, or not...call it...was he?..or wasn't he??

OK..Your turn.....and stop evading....Tell us what the end 'goal' of liberalism is..and/or how Obama's policies, that you defend as liberal, are steps in that direction.

(Maybe he read Locke, and thought of turning the whole country into slaves was a great idea!)

Waiting...stop evading!

GfS