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You're both right. Joe Lieberman was Barack Obama's mentor in the Senate. His ASSIGNED mentor. Every freshman senator is automatically matched up with a more senior senator in a "mentoring" program. Barack Obama just got unlucky. It doesn't mean he supports Joe Lieberman's outlook on the world, it means that he drew the short straw in the Senate mentoring matchups.
It is so funny to me that half the people on this board think that Barack Obama is a stealth Republican and the other half shriek that he's a socialist. Fact is, neither are true (that "Most Liberal Senator" survey from a biased publication used a non-representative sample of Senate votes to skew the results; the fact is, Bernie Sanders, an ACTUAL Socialist (by his own declaration) is the most liberal Senator.
Siedecker, you are right that Barack Obama's actual mentor, who Barack CHOSE as a mentor, is Dick Durbin.
