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Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 10:16 AM by BurtWorm
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LIEBERMAN'S WIFE ENDORSES DEAN
Connecticut Senator Blindsided By Latest Defection
In the latest body blow to the candidacy of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Mr. Lieberman's wife Hadassah today endorsed former Vermont Governor Howard Dean for President.
Mrs. Lieberman used one of her husband's rallies in Concord, New Hampshire to make her stunning announcement.
"I would like to introduce the next President of the United States," Mrs. Lieberman said. "But unfortunately, Howard Dean is in Iowa today."
The crowd audibly gasped as Mrs. Lieberman then launched into a thirty-minute endorsement of the Democratic frontrunner, her ashen-faced husband standing at her side.
Mrs. Lieberman stressed that hers was a difficult decision since it meant overlooking her twenty-year marriage to the Connecticut senator, but added, "At the end of the day, it was a no-brainer."
Regaining his composure after Mrs. Lieberman led the crowd in a chant of "Dean, Dean, Dean," Senator Lieberman said that while he was "disappointed" by his wife's decision, it meant that he was no longer obligated to call his in-laws at Hanukah.
But Mr. Lieberman was blindsided yet again later in the day, when a coalition representing over one hundred of the Senator's friends, family and college roommates issued their own endorsement of Howard Dean.
Responding to that announcement, Mr. Lieberman told reporters, "The fact that everybody is deserting me en masse just proves that I'm gaining momentum," adding, "I'm so close to winning this thing, I can taste it."
Elsewhere, in a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) used two four-letter words, one of them being "Gore." --- end of quoted text ---
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