Joebama! Was Lieberman really Obama's mentor?

[elehhhhna]

Links, please?

[Renew Deal]

1. Obama was assigned to Lieberman when he joined the senate

[Dr.Phool]

2. Yep.

But, he was assigned to Liebermoron by the "leadership". And Holy Joe still called himself a Dem.

[Buzz Clik]

3. What? I thought it was Ted Kennedy? The story has changed AGAIN???!!!!

[NYCGirl]

4. No, there's a tradition where senior Senators are picked to "mentor" freshmen.

Sort of show them the ropes. Actually, Dick Durbin is more like Obama's Senate mentor.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Just repeating last weeks slander. It's so hard to keep up.

[NYCGirl]

6. Sorry, I guess I haven't kept up. Faux outrage and slander move so fast here

these days!

[rinsd]

10. I would agree, Durbin is more of a true mentor to Obama.

[pampango]

9. Actually, I heard that Kennedy was Hillary's mentor when she joined the Senate. n/t

[no name no slogan]

7. Yes. And Obama is from IL, which is right next to WI, which is where

Jeffrey Dahmer is from.

So therefore Obama not only a serial killer but a canibal, too.

[elehhhhna]

13. IL is also next to Indiana, which makes him

a member of the Klan

[rinsd]

8. Mentor for the purposes of orientation as a new Senator.

Its not a Senator Palpatine - Anakin Skywalker relationship.

[connecticut yankee]

11. Obama spoke in favor of Joe

at either the 2006 Connecticut Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner or the State Convention. I forget which -- it may have been both.

I believe he also campaigned for him prior to the primary. After Ned Lamont won, he supported Ned.

I don't care -- I still voted for him (Obama) in the primary.

[Straight Shooter]

12. Yes. And he thought so much of Lieberman, he gave a pretty speech for him.

HARTFORD, Conn. --U.S. Sen. Barack Obama rallied Connecticut Democrats at their annual dinner Thursday night, throwing his support behind mentor and Senate colleague Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman, Connecticut's junior senator, is under fire from some liberal Democrats for his support of the Iraq War. He was key in booking Obama, who routinely receives more than 200 speaking invitations each week.

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"The fact of the matter is, I know some in the party have differences with Joe. I'm going to go ahead and say it," Obama told the 1,700-plus party members who gathered in a ballroom at the Connecticut Convention Center for the $175-per-head fundraiser.

"I am absolutely certain Connecticut is going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate so he can continue to serve on our behalf," he said.

http://tinyurl.com/27tqea

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If Barack can forgive Lieberman and extoll his virtues and urge people to have the "good sense" to vote for Lieberman, why won't the rest of the Dems forgive Hillary? She's much less of a hawk than Holy Joe.

[Lucinda]

14. Take your pick:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=joe+lieberman+obama+mentor

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15. Obama, Lieberman, and the DLC

January 18, 2007
I’ve been suspicious of the Obama parade from the beginning - it’s been my experience that ‘attractive’ Democrats whom the media fawns over and regard as safe can usually trace their roots back to the Democratic Leadership Council, otherwise known as the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.

Obama’s no easy case, though. There are messages in the smoke.

Alexander Cockburn, as left as left can be, has written a couple of pieces on Obama. This was before the media discovered him. That’s a recent phenomenon.

Here’s Cockburn:

It’s depressing to think that we’ll have to endure Obamaspeak for months, if not years to come: a pulp of boosterism about the American dream, interspersed with homilies about “putting factionalism and party divisions behind us and moving on.” I used to think Sen. Joe Lieberman was the man whose words I’d least like to be force fed top volume if I was chained next to a loudspeaker in Camp Gitmo, but I think Obama, who picked Lieberman as his mentor when he first entered the U.S. Senate, is worse. I’ve never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

That’s right - Joe Lieberman is Obama’s mentor, and Lieberman brags that Obama picked him, not the opposite.

Read more at:
http://pieceofmind.wordpress.com/2007/01/18/obama-lieberman-and-the-dlc/

[nonconformist]

16. Yep. He also stumped for Joementum instead of Lamont in the primary

You remember, holy Joe running on the "independent Democrat, Connecticut for Lieberman party".

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17. no! link?

[nonconformist]

19. Yup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/nyregion/02lieberman.html

[elehhhhna]

20. So our choice is limited to bad and worse. Not sure who's who. They both underwhelm.

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18. Was Robert Byrd really Clinton's mentor?