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I don't want a cabinet pick. I don't have any pork projects I want to save. There is no single issue that makes or breaks my vote for any candidate. I do want at least one party that is both smart about the issues, and smart about politics. I thought an Obama-led Democratic party would offer that. What they did today wasn't just stupid--it was cowardly and a betrayal of their most loyal supporters and one more abomination thrust on NOLA and the victims of Katrina--but it was more stupid than anything else.
To borrow the fable someone else referred to, Joe Lieberman is a scorpion who just asked Obama the Frog to swim him across the river. Even though we tried to tell him about that scorpion, Obama decided that it was time to hope it had changed it's nature.
He'll deserve the sting that Lieberman won't be long in delivering. It won't be fatal, but it will eat up time and effort and political capital. And it was utterly avoidable.
