Osama is not a liberal.

As Chet Scoville of Vanity Press points out, he would be more at home with the rabid far right wing of the Republicans:

This game is really getting tiresome. As RT observes, no sooner does the new Bin Laden tape come out than some right-wingers notice nothing about it except that Bin Laden name-drops Noam Chomsky and mentions the Kyoto Protocol, and those same right-wingers reflexively say, "Ah ha!!!! See, he and the left really are the same!"

Let's take a closer look, shall we? ABC News has made a grainy little pdf transcript available here, and by looking it over (yeah, go ahead, it won't hurt you), we can see that OBL also makes the following assertions:

• He says, right out loud, that his own "interests overlap with those of the major corporations and also with those of the neoconservatives."
• He says that democratic capitalism is a failure because its taxes are too high.
  
• He can't seem to tell the difference between lefty heroes John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
• And he says that theocracy is wicked cool, and that the division between church and state is a really bad idea.
  

Identical with the left? Nonsense.

But the thing is, this guy is not identical with the right either. He's not actually definable in right-left terms, and why should he be? For one thing, those are Western political terms, and he's not a Westerner. But more importantly, he's just not very lucid; his speech wanders all over the map without any kind of focus, centre, or discipline.