Reminds me of a trained seal.They know the right response on cue also.

That wasn't even a real laugh. 

Really are we going with the war crime thing? Name them.  Name the crimes, show us he proof and I will support you.  Short of that, go sit in the corner with Murtha and wait for your blanket party.

If Obama is elected, does anyone believe that people like Maddow won't be saying that it's a victory of liberalism (or progressivism) over conservatism?

He's not a liberal now, they claim.

But wait until he gets into office. It'll be a mandate, they'll say, for every liberal/left policy view since Eleanor Roosevelt was a baby.

It's a straw man argument. They're arguing that since Obama isn't pushing all of the most liberal causes, he must therefore be considered a centrist. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

Smerconish's point is typical. Obama hasn't defined himself at all.  In fact, Obama scrupulously avoids definition. In this case, he just rejected the scandal. He hasn't explained what he really believes, or more importantly, why he believes it. (The why is important, because it proves whether he actually believes something, or whether it's just a policy of covenience.)

• For example, Obama was asked about his tax plan during the debates, he answered that he was in favor of taxing the wealthiest upper class, but not the middle or lower class. No journalist challenged Obama as to what theory he was using to justify taking taxes from one group rather than another.
• But when Charlie Gibson challenged Obama about the capital gains tax. Obama showed that his real motive for raising the capital gains tax was simple class egalitarianism. He wanted to take money from rich people because he didn't think that it was fair for some people to have more money than others.
• Take that same theory back to the tax cuts. He wants to raise taxes on rich people because of that same egalitarianism. But no one is asking him what that implies -- it means that he thinks it's his right to dictate where money goes.

I'm from Philadelphia, but I'm no fan of Smerconish. He's not a conservative. He's just a hack Republican (big difference) who will abandon any conservative principle to gain a few poll numbers. He's like the Disney corporation; they sell family values, but if they can make a few bucks going against those values, they're open to the idea. Smerconish's brand of Republican is like that. He treats conservatism as something the GOP can sell, but if something else sells better, he'll drop conservatism. He used to promote his show with a radio soundbyte where he claimed that the pro-life platform was unpopular in the suburbs, so he wanted the GOP to abandon the pro-lifers. As he gets more play on MSNBC, he's morphing into a liberal.

Let's see, Obama is ok with partial birth abortion, and he's not ok with saving the life of babies that somehow survived an abortion. I think he's liberal enough.

Obama is a closet Stalinist...when will the entire world see that?

Libs are are dissociated from reality that they can convince themselves of anything.

Rachel doesn't consider her former AirAmerica colleague, Randi Rhodes, to be a liberal either. No, Randi's just another garden variety DRUNK and then Rachel can consider her other former AirAmerica colleague, Al Franken.  He's not a liberal either Rachel, just another garden variety TAX CHEAT.

Does Rachel know or work with any decent people or are they all liberals?

The people  referring to Obama as a  "Communist" may not be employing as much hyperbole as one might think.

   A fairly good marker of where a politician really sits on the left right spectrum is their defense policy.   If you do a little research you will find that Obama has endorsed and been endorsed by members of the "congressional progressive caucus" in realtion to a plan to dramtically reduce the defense budget and dramtically cut thenations military strength almost to the point of unilateral disarmerment.  Obama does not talk about it to general audiences, but in front of fellow travlelers he makes it clear that the much of the money to finance his social welfare projects is going to come from the defense budget.

       It is important to remember that there are well financed powerful groups to the left of The Nation Magazine and the New York Times Editorial Page. 

     International Action, various"Peace" activists, Code Pink and other front organizations for the Socialist Workers Party and CPUSA [CP=Communist Party] plan, promote and organize most of the anti-war demonstrations and Cindy Shean type propaganda events. Note: much of the academic left is in this hard hard left category also.  

   Obama's recent speech to AIPAC indicates that his campaign has decided that he will simply tell bold faced lies rather than try to defend his true radical beliefs.

       He received standing ovations from AIPAC  members, there is no way anyone can please both Hamas and AIPAC.  The only way you accomplish this is lying to one or both parties.