Letters to the Editor
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WTF, editors?
Why give this traitorous piece of mendacious filth a forum in Salon?
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What Former Planet is Lieberman Living On?
Joe Lieberman must have the rank and file of the Democratic Party confused with the Republican true believers who are willing to swallow any lie that makes them feel better about their status in the world. How else can one explain away such blatant falsehoods, both in content and in spirit? And he must be orbiting somewhere out on Pluto if he imagines that an interview like this would do anything but gain him further condemnation from progressives everywhere.
My favorite gems from this interview:
So based on what I have seen [in the press] and with an occasional conversation with a colleague, he did not do well and he diminished his credibility. In most administrations, the president would have asked him to leave or he would have left. So I leave it to them [the White House]. But his credibility is in doubt. And as a former attorney general, that's not a good thing. And therefore -- but I'm only a senator. To me, that's something that the attorney general should take up with the president.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
If we picked up as quickly as we could and pulled out -- as a lot of people here [in the Senate] think we should -- it will be a very damaging loss of credibility for us.
Again, WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Honestly, did anyone conduct a serious vote recount of Connecticut's last race for Senator?
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I agree with Texas PI Lawyer
This was an awfully lightweight interview. I can't even articulate how disappointed I am that you Mr. Shapiro didn't call him out on any of his incredibly obtuse answers. Unbelievable!
I started out wanting to take the man seriously, at least. Nope. Can't. "You're on safe ground." Good lord. The ground could not have been safer for Joe Lieberman in this interview!
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Joe Seemed Pretty Accurate
Joe did rather well with that stating:
1) Feels we're better off without Hussein around.
2) Believes Bush prosecuted the war incorrectly.
3) Is hopeful Petraus will do well.
4) Believes the race to appese the extreme on Iraq will marginalize the democrat candidate in 2008.
Democrats are pulling the same nonsense the far right pulled in the republican party for years and is still pulling today.
There's a disconnect in american sentiment on Iraq. While unhappy with the way it is being prosecuted, they do not want to see a drastic pull out of troops.
Now the far left can whine it's the big bad media that has twisted the sentiment and fanned the flames with hyperbole, but poll after poll shows this disconnect.
Pelosi and crew looked at the dissatisfaction with the way the war was going and overreached with their time line. Bush called their bluff, emboldened by public sentiment and did to the congress what Clinton did to Gingrich on the budget.
Extremism is extremism no matter if the choir that preaches to itself on here believes it or not.
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Nice job Salon photo editors - that photo of Joe says it all...
For once we see Joe Lieberman not smiling the smile of the ingratiated, butt-kissing, turn-coat, weenie-hawk that he is.
My god, without the glare of his smile, it's so apparent his puss is severely pruned from all that time stuck firmly between the butt cheeks of the GOP right and YET his eyes are steely reminders that yes, if need be, he'd shiv you in the back for questioning him...or because he must.
Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Joe's Backward Thinking
Joe's entire Iraq "strategy" is based on his bottom line of how bad things will be if we leave. But anything he can describe that may happen if we leave, is already happening because we are there. This is delusional backward thinking, and an absence of leadership. We need new leaders with new ways to solve these very real problems, not more back-assward Bush/Iraq apologists.
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Not much to be surprised at
The little putz doesn't surprise me. What continues to amaze me is why Salon employs someone like Walter Shapiro. This is "alternative" media? He's right of center but not as bad as Rush Limbaugh? To expect Shapiro to challenge anything the right says is asking a lot. Take a look at any of his interviews. No, these were two good ol' boys chuckling about us wacky Salon readers, on whose behalf Shapiro was obligated to toss a few half-hearted questions, without challenging the bizarre lies the weasly opportunist offered in response.
Salon, with great columnists like Sydney Blumenthal and Juan Cole, surely you can unleash a real journalist to talk with these guys.
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Lieberman
I just wish Lieberman would claim his Republicanship and move on. What exactly draws him to the Democratic name? As an Independant in this closely split senate, his position gives him far more power than he would have otherwise, and here is the key to his method I guess. I wonder if the Republican webbers fume over Michael Bloomberg and say enough already, just take back the Liberal Democrat moniker you always wore before entering politics!
-PS The thinly disguised anti-semitism displayed by a few of the responders here is really beneath a supposed enlightened group and in effect goes counter to what you profess to believe in and puts you in league with the right wing intolerants.
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Question
Senator Lieberman, one more question, if I may: In retrospect, how do you feel about destroying your career by shilling for the most corrupt presidential administration since Nixon, over what has turned out to be the worst foreign policy disaster in the history of our country? I mean, when people hear the name "Joe Lieberman" that is the first thing that pops into their heads. Doesn't that make you feel like a jackass?
Okay, that was actually two questions. Carry on, Joe. And one more thing. Understand that Democrats will never again trust you for choosing to be Bush's butt boy. Republicans will think you're a fool for choosing to betray your own political party, so they'll never trust you, either.
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Question for readers...
How can you tell when Joe Lieberman is lying?
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Lie-ber"man"
Quisling, sellout, lapdog, house coon, turncoat, liar, and coward. If he had a modicum of manhood, he would have taken his primary ass whipping like a man and gone on to whore for the drug companies. He's not that honest.