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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Democrats Don't like Joe Lieberman
Well, hey, could be that he's partially responsible for W.And there was that unwavering support for Dubya's wars of folly.
Oh, and he's the main reason we don't have multi-payer health care.
And just a bunch of other things . . .
Still, Lieberman stood by his friend.
"In the Senate, during the three-and-a-half years that Sen. Barack Obama has been a member, he has not reached across party lines to ... accomplish anything significant, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party to get something done," he said at the 2008 Republican convention.
Democrats viewed that speech as blasphemy.
"He could have given a speech defending John McCain, but instead he went on the offense and blistered Obama over his lack of foreign policy skills, which were a major Republican talking point," said Manley, a long-time senior aide to Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate leader. "It caused a lot of ill will."
The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)he said he would have ALL military ballots counted. That included those that were submitted AFTER the election.
Cut our legs out from under us on this.
It was all downhill from there.
melman
(7,681 posts)I'll never forget seeing him say that on MTP. I just knew right then it was over.
riversedge
(69,729 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Why don't all of these silly relics go back to their own stupid decades?
ooky
(8,889 posts)Dems need to resist this as hard as they can. Trump is lining up shills, then he will fire the current deputy AG, then the special prosecutor and shut the investigation down.
KG
(28,749 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)Freddie
(9,232 posts)We couldn't get a public option with the ACA. Also at the last minute they tried to add a provision that would allow people ages 55 - 64 to buy into Medicare, which he also would not allow. Representing the great state of Aetna, er, Connecticut.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Every time we do this, the actions of stains like Lieberturd loom larger and larger.
If there's any sort of measure as to how reprehensible a person is, it probably starts with placing financial and political interests over a person's health.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)$$$ and AIPAC. That's about it.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)we sure as hell don't need any politician to do a job someone with legal AND law enforcement experience should be doing.
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)I think he's a poor excuse for a Democrat and a human being for that matter.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)They just do not call themselves Communist any longer but same party rebranded. These are the same actors who killed Jewish dissidents for decades. They now have tapped Joe as a useful idiot they can control.
martigras
(151 posts)He loves Betsy DeVos and is a big proponent of charter schools.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Thanks for reminding me!
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Martin Eden
(12,804 posts)The "Three Amigos" get a failing grade in that department for enthusiastically supporting what will go down as the most colossal strategic blunder in the history of US foreign policy.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)In effect, he has already sworn an oath of loyalty to Trump. Presumably, that would have been his only "interview" question.
He is not only a bad choice, but one of the most corrupt choices possible.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)Interviewer: "Have you ever given an anti-Obama speech in public, preferably at a republican national political convention?"
Liberturd: "Yes"
Interviewer: "You're hired!"
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)That Joe Lieberman would have been on the receiving end of a little chat like this from the West Wing:
Miss that show so much.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)"[President Bartlett] doesn't hold a grudge. That what he pays me for."
FBaggins
(26,697 posts)Virtually every Democrat that the purists want to primary/threaten does not come from a state or district that Clinton won with larger margins.
They almost all outperformed the head of the ticket.
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)When Obama was still the new hotness, and Lieberman was selling the Democratic party out.
Any assistant DA that Obama draped his arm over in the band gazebo would have been an instant star.
Atman
(31,464 posts)He is a pox on our state. And that's saying a lot, because Connecticut has LOTS of serious problems right now.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)once upon a time you could say he was at least on our side and better than a republican.
at some point he turned, and he's simply not on our side.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)nt
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)I still can hear someone say, "joe Lieberman douche"
hibbing
(10,076 posts)Cheney was all puffy and smug when commenting that all the money he made off Halliburton had nothing to do with government, which was a FAT LIE. And wimpy Joe just laughed along with the crowd because he was so insulated in the DC establishment that he couldn't come back with a comment. I remember screaming at the tv!
Peace
dem4decades
(11,244 posts)Presidential than doing his job as attack dog and exposing Cheney as the monster he was. As usual, it was all about Joe, not one Democrat better support him.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)LIEberman's a turd, I just flipped him the bird
MiniMe
(21,677 posts)During the 2008 election when he was campaigning with McCain and Lindsey Graham
Demit
(11,238 posts)who supported hospitals that would refuse to prescribe a day after pill to a rape victim. "It's just a short ride to another hospital," he said.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)I knew right then and there we had lost the presidency
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Very, VERY poor choice.
The Clinton presidency had a great deal of positives (a few negatives, yes). Lieberman's star rose by moving away from those positives and dragging the ticket towards the center-right . . . against a popular Republican brand.
I REALLY did not like his hob-knobbing with some members of the Religious Right.