<p>Liberals have historically been the voice of those who have no voice, fighting for the rights of those on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.</p>
<p>They have campaigned relentlessly against cuts in AFDC (search), Medicaid (search) and Medicare (search). Even now, the expansion of Medicare to include prescription drugs has become a crusade of liberal advocacy groups. To hear Robert Reich (search), former President Clinton's first Secretary of Labor, one would think that the primary duty of a president is to create jobs, something that a substantial number of economists believe is not even possible under normal economic conditions.</p>
