Just an aside here, Bobert...no kind of attack in this...but I'm curious about the symbol you sign off with. It's supposed to be you smiling, right?

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I think the last actual liberal who was elected president in the USA may have been Jimmy Carter. Possibly. I haven't noticed any liberals in the office since him. Obama sounded quite liberal in some ways when he was running for office (although not so much in foreign policy), but once in office he has proved to be far from liberal. The NDAA is about the least liberal thing I've heard of since...ummm...well, in a very, very long time. It's Bush's Patriot Act over again, only considerably moreso. It's what the Republicans would have done while in office, if they'd dared to. Obama did it quietly over New Year's, and most people in the USA hardly even noticed.