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SilentPatriot on Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 5:14 PM - PDT
Ouch.
When The Day endorsed Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for re-election in November 2006 it was supporting a candidate who demonstrated a history of pragmatic leadership and a willingness to seek bipartisan solutions.
We wonder what happened to that senator.
Sen. Lieberman’s open-ended commitment to military involvement in Iraq comes as no surprise. The senator made it clear when running for re-election that was his position. Sen. Lieberman wants the United States military to remain in Iraq until the war is won, whatever that means. It conflicts with this newspaper’s position that the time has come for a gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Jane Hamsher: Hey NARAL, Planned Parenthood…the water’s warm, come on down!
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My understanding is that they originally mistook Lieberman for Droopy. Now they tell us he was Dupey.
Too bad, too late.
I think there are a lot of folks in Conn. that are regretting their support for someone they thought they knew.
This thug may as well take off the sheep’s clothing. I certainly hope after the 2088 election he does, and stands on the correct side of the aisle that he belongs on.
Too little, too late.
They stuck with the warmongers JUST long enough to get them elected, and NOW they want to throw them under the bus, and give themselves cover?
Wrong answer.
What they are doing is TRANSPARENTLY insincere and contrived.
let’s hope that this year they will do all posible to distance
themselves from LIEberman and that the people of
connecticut will elect someone who actually represents
their views and not that of the other party.
LIEberman fooled them once, let’s hope that is all
it takes.
While a crappy senator and a farce, Lieberaman does make a great intern, on the other hand.
Too little, too late, IMHO.
This is a cse of a whore sensing a change in the wind direction, a wind that is going to turn into a freaking gale against the Conservatives.
Imagine a McCain/Lieberman ticket for the election!! :) I don’t think the RNC would even qualify for federal matching funds they would get so few votes.
Hulk @ 3:
Correction: 2008. Can they recall him since he doesn’t represent them as promised?
Saw this earlier today - left a comment welcoming The Day to the Reality Based Community. Holy Joe …
How ununsual is it for a paper to apologize for having backed a candidate?
I accept your apology, The Day of Connecticut, for being the sniveling, naive, gullible, idiots that you are.
Now, why don’t you guys at The Day run an editorial about the idiot Demo Senators that came to campaign for Lieberman against Demo Progressive Ned Lamont.
Yeh, I accept your apology, you idiots.
Not only does the newspaper owe an apology, but the entire state of Connecticut owes an apology. Anyone on the outside could see where Joe was headed with his pro war views, but for some reason these people couldn’t see it.Watching Joe translating english to McCain is sickening….
I fucking hate Liebermann. And you punks were just nuts about him in 2000! Ha ha ha ha!!! Just roll over and let them take the election, this asshole goes back to the Senate and aligns himself with the Hawks and he is still allowed to chair and caucus with the Dems.
FEINGOLD WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was in Connecticut during the 2006 election on business, and I went to a local bar and was just dumb founded by the support people where giving to lieberman. I ran into very profoundly gullible and misinformed people most of the places I went where political discussions came up. Which seemed to be all everyone wanted to talk about.
There is a whole lot of egg, on a whole lot of faces about getting behind this fella, just as there are cartons and cartons of eggs on the faces of many people in this country for passing George W Bush off as presidential material.
Which is even more reason that we need to start paying more attention to these people upfront and getting more information on them, before they take office, because once they take office, we could end up with these people, like Bush, that has made our lives hell
amazing we’re gonna be stuck with this douchebag for five more years..
oh and Pelosi and Reid are little better…fuck them too….I usually don’t cuss but the genocide we, the land of the free and home of the brave have created is literally sickening me!
Why we have Liebermann!
StCyrlyMe2 @ 15:
Given how incompetent Bush is. I can’t help but wonder if maybe there should be an added requirement that you pass an IQ test with at least a 110 score (to low?) before you can become a presidential candidate.
This ties in nicely with the post about the journalists who are asking for mea culpa for supporting the invasion of Iraq.
I said it back then and I will say it again now. States need a method in law to recall U.S. Senators and Congressmen/women. That and public financing of campaigns would put some accountability back in our “representative democratic republic”.
James @ 4:
This is true…
of a Lot of people.
I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for Bush in 04
Well, I don’t accept The Day’s apology. It’s because of fuckheads like this that the rest of the country has had to suffer Lieberman’s lip attachment to Bush’s ass.
Fuck The Day. You should have done your homework and backed Ned Lamont, assholes.
Good for them. Now recall him!
How about an apology from Obama?
“The fact of the matter is, I know some in the party have differences with Joe. I’m going to go ahead and say it,” Obama told the 1,700-plus party members who gathered in a ballroom at the Connecticut Convention Center for the $175-per-head fundraiser.
No differences for Mr. Perfect however. He goes on to extort the assemblage to reelected Warrior Joe:
“I am absolutely certain Connecticut is going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate so he can continue to serve on our behalf,” he said.
March 31, 2006
Any second thoughts, heir apparent?
I actually have more respect for Leibermann than I do for this stupid paper. At least he made a decision that the public could judge for themselves and he stuck with it.
What made them change their minds? The facts haven’t changed, just the polls.
When you’re in the news business, you should know the facts better than the public. It makes you wonder whether they were basing their endorsement on facts or on the local polls.
This apology would be of some value were we not stuck with this asshat for another 4 years. I never want to wish my time away but the next four years cannot go fast enough.
I’ll bet this paper endorsed the Big Lie war, too, and today is a chagrined member of the “If We Only Knew” crowd. Not an ashamed or furious member, mind you. Just chagrined.
Seize the Day!
“Sen. Lieberman’s open-ended commitment to military involvement in Iraq comes as no surprise. The senator made it clear when running for re-election that was his position.”
No, Lieberman said:
Their 1st clue should have been when the RNC backed off on supporting their candidate and got behind Lieberman.
when they denounce AIPAC, I’ll believe they are sincere.
Suddenly the Amish tradition of shunning makes sense. If the citizens of Connecticut actually shunned this Senator, turned their backs on him, and actually embarrassing him so much that he couldn’t even set foot in his home state, then that might make a difference. Otherwise, it’s too little too late. The damage to the nation has already been done.
Ron @ 2:
My thoughts exactly.
I ‘m sick of this perennial sense of surprise and betrayal expressed by people who should have known better in the first place.I’m not just referring to the fact that anyone with half a brain cell could have told you that Joe is a conniving weasel.I’m also talking about War boosters who in hindsight blather on about how “everyone” thought Iraq had WMD.Or how Condi couldn’t imagine terrorists crashing planes into towers etc.
I’ll tell you what I knew:if a single child was killed in Iraq because of Bush’s war,then it would be one child too many.
It’s quite simple really.
Eric Jaffa @ 30:
maybe more can be done AT C&L to expose CNN.
wasn’t that said AFTER he lost the primary to Ned Lamont? Joe changed his tune.
Who really owns the Connecticut newspaper?
Sounds pretty phony to me.
Please make the f@#king pop-up ads go away. Oh, and uh………..Lieberman sucks and so do annoying ads. Please! Make them stop. I enjoy coming here, but the pop-ups were never here before, and now……….well, there they are.
Anyone who voted for these clowns are GUILTY of the mess the USA finds itself in.
37 Pol Pot-O-Cheesesauce Says: Please make the f@#king pop-up ads go away. Oh, and uh………..Lieberman sucks and so do annoying ads. Please! Make them stop. I enjoy coming here, but the pop-ups were never here before, and now……….well, there they are.
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I only had it happen once, but once was enough.
I hate to say it but i will stop coming here if they pop up again.
Che’s Lounge @ 20:
I was going to say something similar to that.
apologies yes, but way more is needed. those who supported this traitor need to campaign with all at their disposal to out him and then oust him. what a joke he is. laughable other than the fact that he has his staunch supporters on the conservative side. i say ask the leading candidates on the dem side once again how they stand on Joe lieberman, do they support or denounce him? that is the current litmus test. someone needs to ask them. that will show a lot more than support for a cheap ass politician.
Can we get someone with very deep pockets to run against Chuck Schumer next? Soros?
Jack Lefforts @ 25:
Seriously. How can Obama claim to have been against the illegal U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, then support the candidate who was openly lobbying to “stay the course” over the candidate who wanted to end the occupation?
I live in Connecticut (for only 4 more weeks thank God). Just looking at “McCain’s brain” makes me sick. I think I’m gonna barf.
And thinking of Obama referring to me as “a typical white person” (wha?) makes me equally as nauseated.
Blaaaahhhhhhccccchhhhhhhhhh………..
Especially after I sent Obama fifty bucks the other night in a weak moment of blind patriotism after he actually uttered the words, “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic.”
*(Never use your credit card after drinking 3 margaritas).
And yet you endoresed him anyway?
Apology denied.
Pol Pot-O-Cheesesauce @ 37:
Urban-cyber sprawl, like a hjighway billboard or overpopulated strip mall.
It’s the American way, advertising makes the world go ’round
The fact of the matter is, I know some in the party have differences with Joe. I’m going to go ahead and say it,” Obama told the 1,700-plus party members who gathered in a ballroom at the Connecticut Convention Center for the $175-per-head fundraiser.
No differences for Mr. Perfect however. He goes on to extort the assemblage to reelected Warrior Joe:
“I am absolutely certain Connecticut is going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate so he can continue to serve on our behalf,” he said.
This absolutely is going to make me question support for obama. trouble is i think from her past leanings, hillary is of a like mind. f…ng politicians screw ‘em all. where is kucinich.
Apology not accepted.
Take responsibility for your lies.
Close down your newspaper.
Cowards. It’s like all these politicians who voted for the war and then said that they were duped. The Day did what it thought was commercially expedient by backing Holy Joe. Now they see that this nut could easily be our next vice president.
Yeah, where’s Kucinich?
The headline here is “Comfortable liberals slowly realize that fascism CAN happen here”
Amazing, simply amazing. Now; you are sorry? I don’t even live in ct and I KNEW this guy was a piece of crap. Please keep your regrets to yourself. It’s a bit late now.
I hope the editors of that newspaper see fit to publish my comments. You could say I kind of called them out on their stupidity, in as nice a fashion as possible.
An apology ? There’s some integrity for you , what a crock . # 32 , I agree . How I would like to see the Dem party develope some spine and kick Elmer Fudd out of the party , he’s like a turd in the fish bowl .
Abbybwood @ 43: