The headline doesn’t match the text. Obama is saying all of these things he wants AREN’T ‘liberal’.
It is strange, but the first line of the story says that he was objecting to the liberal label being a bad thing. So the error looks like Obama's more than the headline writer's.
“The headline doesn’t match the text. Obama is saying all of these things he wants AREN’T ‘liberal’”
I think he’s saying calling him liberal is the conservative way to argue against common sense.
So he sees the conservative movement as needing to use labels in order to take support away from common sense solutions because conservatives have no solutions just attacks.