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I haven't yet read the other letters that are commenting on this article, but I think I know my fellow netroots activists well enough to guess at the surprise, if not outright anger, expressed over the glaring omissions in this article. Lieberman's support of the war and Bush go well beyond a "glass half full" vision of present day Iraq; and if Lieberman is 'galled' by the epithet of "George Bush's favorite Democrat" he certainly does nothing to dissuade anyone, left or right, from thinking of him as such.
It is at the very least a journalistic flaw--if not a case of effective dishonesty--in this article that it makes no mention of Lieberman's Wall Street Journal op-ed calling on Democrats to cease criticism of Bush and the war; to not mention his obsessive currying of favor with the likes Sean Hannity and Bill Bennett; and his glass-half full vision of Iraq should at least refer to those journalists, such as Michael Ware of Time Magazine, that Lieberman's vision of Iraq is, to put it kindly, excessively optimistic.
I'm surprised to read what is virtually a DLC puff piece on Poor Ol' Joe in Salon. Was Walter Shapiro also responsible for your excellent Andrew Sullivan adventure a few years back? Way to bring the fairity and balancedness to the pages of Salon.
