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• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 05:40 AM

  The thoughtful analysis and piercing isight you've come to expect from TIME

  "If Lieberman is anything, as he proved with John McCain, he's loyal - and now he owes Obama a big one."-- JAY NEWTON-SMALL

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081118/us_time/08599186039600;_ylt=ApoovHMUghgHGvh1FdSJeKys0NUE

  Personally, I'm still working on the philosophical puzzle of the opening phrase; "If Lieberman is anything..." But I think it's some kind of political koan and if Lieberman leads to my spiritual awakening, I've promised myself I'm going right back to sleep.

  This "insight" reminds me of the day after the 2006 elections when Bush "fired" Rumsfeld and Norah O'Donnell said, (overlooking the fact that it was an action taken three and a half years into a failed war; from a president who had remained in a classroom reading a children's book after being notified of the attacks on the World Trade Center and then had hid out for three days; who had to be prodded into offering financial help for the Asian Tsunami survivors; and who had completely ignored the drowning of the 35th largest city in his own country until his non-response became historical infamy: that "Love him or hate him, you've got to admit he's decisive."

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