YES, I AM A PROUD LIBERAL

It is so infuriating to hear the republicans talk about the democrats as "Liberals" as if that was an insult or a demeaning word.
For those who do not understand the real meaning of "Liberal " this is what the dictionary says about it: HAVING, EXPRESSING, OR FOLLOWING VIEWS OR POLICIES THAT FAVOR THE FREEDOM OF INDIVIDUALS TO ACT OR EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN A MANNER OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING ". Also: "TOLERANT OF THE IDEAS OR BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS".

Additionally, from the Latin "LIBERALIS" = OF FREEDOM, and
" LIBER " = FREE.

Considering that this country boasts freedom as the God given right to all of us, and considering that we want to "give" freedom to oppressed countries (i.e. Iraq), being a liberal is a compliment, which we Democrat Liberals should thank the Republicans for reminding us every day during political campaigns, primaries, and elections.

We should also thank them for calling us liberals when we try to protect the rights of a woman to have a justifiable abortion, a woman who has been raped by a subhuman species allowed to live among us and to have legal representation in court, while he is being dressed in a suit and tie and he is being called sir or gentleman by the justice. I am definitely a liberal who supports the choice of that woman to end the horrifying experience she had to suffer. Experience that was not commanded by God, but by the devil. Since we are so religious too in our country, it is important to make that clarification.

Yes, I am a liberal when I oppose the "war" in Iraq, an invasion that has already sent to their death 3,300 young Americans fighting for the material interests of a few and not to defend our country, as it is intended to be labeled by the republicans.

Yes, I am liberal when I see people suffering with incurable diseases and I want our government to do extensive Cell Stems research to find cures for these people, instead of debating about the religious aspect of it, as if we were experts on the wishes of God. Although I am sure that God does not want us to have cancer, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other republican accepted plagues.

Yes, I am a liberal when I see that the big oil companies announce billions of profit every year while there are 40 million children living in poverty.

Yes, I am a liberal when I know that the level of education in our country
is substandard compared to many European and other civilized countries and I don't see anything being done to motivate teachers to be better and students to take more interest in their future and less in their below the waist baggy pants.

Yes, I am a liberal who wants every American to have access to health insurance without having to foreclose on his/her house to afford it. A liberal who wants to be able to have control of his life instead of being a commodity entry in an HMO's ledger.

Yes, I am a liberal who worked very hard for 34 years, contributing to the tax and social security pool, to realize that now I am a forgotten member of society who gets a 2.4% increase on his monthly check, while the cost of living goes up 20%, while the big corporations keep showing higher profits than in previous years, and the pharmaceutical companies are allowed to mark up their medicines up to 2000% over the production cost.

Yes, I am a liberal who wants the economy to jump out of this sunken ship for 7 years, by creating a different type of energy for the cars we drive, other than gas, a different approach to creating new jobs in relation to the global warning, a menace to our planet, and bringing back the outsourced employment to the USA, where it belongs.

Yes, I am a liberal, when I believe that the immigration rumpus regarding illegals can be solved by integrating all these people to our society, by giving them proper documentation and making them an integral part of our system with its benefits and penalties. At the same time that we establish strong border measures to avoid the entry of future illegals.

Yes, I am a liberal with the intelligence to know that when people are born in the physical body of any of the two sexes, their genes may be of the opposite gender, and they are prisoners of their own existence. Thus, they have the right to be what their souls tell them and we have no right to condemn them and forbid them from having the same rights as we all "normal" (according to republicans) people have.

And yes I am a liberal when I can vote for a black person or a woman, while republicans prefer to elect a white Anglo-Saxon candidate on the basis of his religion, faked patriotism and phony hypocritical strict antiquated values. Nevertheless, I respect the republican views, although I do not like them and do not agree with them, because I AM A PROUD LIBERAL, who believes in the real democracy and true freedom.