Just Finished Reading "Why We're Liberals"

I just finished reading Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America by Eric Alterman. An interesting book, and at moments truly enlightening. Part I tries, with limited success to try to define liberalism. It sets up the historically honorable liberal (everyone used to praise liberalism it seems) and the present ability of conservatives to define liberals however they want.

Part II, is titled Why they (liberals) Hate America - but it would have been more effectively titled "I know you are but what am I." This section, which is both more interesting and entertaining provides various claims made by conservatives about liberals (Liberals are love to tax, liberals hate religion, my favorite - liberals are so nasty) and disputes them with exhausting examples of how conservatives are even worse than liberals (hence I know you are but what am I). Alterman does a great job of proving that conservatives are worse at almost everything they accuse the liberals of being, and the exhaustive examples are both amusing and helpful, but that seems to be the value of the book.