Hilary Clinton is "not" a liberal?

Question

On another foreign policy topic, Biden said he would send 2,500 U.S. troops to Darfur to try to end the civil war there. It took three tries to get Clinton to answer the same questions. She finally said U.S. ground troops don't belong in the fight because they are overextended in Iraq.

She also refused to call herself a liberal. "I prefer the word progressive, which has a real American meaning ...," she said.

What's a "progressive"?

Answer 1

"Progressive" is to "Liberal"
as
"Pre-owned Transportation Consultant" is to "Used Car Salesman"

Answer 2

I would call Kucinich a progressive. And, I would call Ralph Nader a progressive along with the Green party. But I would never call Hillary a progressive. But it is a term that goes way back in American history including with Teddy Roosevelt, so maybe she is declaring that as part of her roots and her meaning of being a progressive. But it isn't what I would term as anything like today's Progressives who are much more independent of corporate funding and ties than Hillary is. Hillary is a full blown corporate capitalist which is counter to contemporary Progressives who have been calling themselves that for over 50 years.

Answer 3

Actually, she said quite a bit about what she would do in Darfur. She also was for a no fly zone but it had to be handled just right to protect the people on the ground. I wouldn't call her a liberal either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism

This link pretty well describes what a progressive stands for.
Workers rights, corporate regulations, environmentalism, etc.

Answer 4

Hillary cannot hide from her past. Progressive, liberal, socialist, left-leaning, all have meaning, and all define her political views since she entered political life.

She's trying to sell the fact that she'd a middle of the road "progressive". It's a weasel attempt to hide her true colors and it stinks. In her first great endeavor to shape any type of policy, she came up with the most socialist program imaginable - her health care reform fiasco.

Her proposal for health care was so bad that even Democrats couldn't support it, because they knew Americans would reject it without hesitation.

Answer 5

relatively no longer Hillary. Hillary is formidable. She merely grew to alter right into a Senator (with out my vote) in long island as a stepping stone to the Oval workplace. while invoice Clinton became President, she stated as herself the Co-President and pronounced issues like "we are the President" as though every physique elected her. Sarah Palin is the comparable as Hillary Clinton, she is conscious that she had to get out of Alaska to get into the national spotlight.

Answer 6

It's a label the liberals put on themselves to avoid being pigeonholed into the tax and spend mentality of the old liberals.....

They're still the same thing. Leopards don't change their spots.

Answer 7

Socialist

Answer 8

progressive is just the current *hip* term for lib
because some feel the term lib has been tainted by the likes of rush limbaugh
Personally...i prefer the term lib...it makes the cons skin crawl LOL!

Answer 9

Well, she's neither liberal nor progressive. Unless she thinks voters want to hear that.

I realize they all pander, but she takes it to previously unforeseen levels.

Answer 10

her best answer would have been, Im a democratic senator, who isnt in favor of all these labels that are meant to bring about division, rather than unify us against our common issues