No need to worry though, guys…he supports us on everything else.
When Wolf Blitzer pointed out that Obama also labels Hamas a terrorist organization, making his position the same as McCain’s, Lieberman said, “that’s true,” adding that Obama “clearly doesn’t support any of the values and goals of Hamas.”
Then, with depressing predictability, came the inevitable caveat:
But the fact that the spokesperson for Hamas would say they would welcome the election of Senator Obama really does raise the question, “Why?”
And it suggests the difference between these two candidates.
This ridiculous guilt-by-association crap needs to stop already. Ed Schultz made a great point the other day: What if someone in, say, the KKK came out and said they would welcome the election of McCain over Obama? Does that have bearing on McCain, his candidacy or his beliefs? Of course not. But we wouldn’t then go around, adding the caveat, “Why does the KKK support him?”
Only desperate neocons stoop that low (see: Joe Lieberman, above.)
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Note to dems: with friends like these, who needs enemas?
I hope Osama Bin Laden endorses McCain at some point.
That would really throw the Republicans into turmoil.
Yeah, someone has got to find out who David Duke’s choice is, QUICK!
LOSERMAN!
What a tool.
Hopefully he will be a VP candidate that loses once again.
What did Al Gore ever see in this jackass?
And, can you believe it?, the NYT has given that old AIPAC neocon Edward Luttwack space to bring up the Muslim smear again?
sophiedog @ 4:
Just think: this guy could have been Vice President for the last eight years. What could be worse than that? (heh heh heh…)
Has Lieberman crossed Reid’s line yet? Just asking.
Maybe we should just hold a convention of terrorists and whoever they vote for loses the presidential election. The deciders on the US Supreme Court would likely say it is allowed under the Patriot Act, if it meant a Repug won.
Is there a more loathsome figure in US politics today? Bush is a simpleton, so yu can’t really hold that against him. Cheney is at least up-front about being the Dark Lord. Lieberman, on the other hand, is a mewling little toady. If Harry Reid had a hair on his ass, he would have sent Lieberman to the basement of the Hart building months ago.
i again would like to thank the great people of ct for reeclecting holy joe asshat
btw, there are dems in wv who still think that obama is a muslim
Does anuone gets it? Liberman continue to support Israel, not the United States!
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 11:
He isn’t, as far as Hillary knows.
Joe certainly makes a very insightful point. He is so patriotic. (sarcasm)
Really, I can’t wait until we can have a real democratic majority in the Sentate
so this little smear baby fully achieves irrelevancy.
McCain getting a KKK endorsement would go a long way to energize his base.
Only trouble is: Where to announce–O ‘Really, Limppaw, Clannity? Somebody’s gonna get their little black heart a-broken…
America isn’t quite as stupid as it once was to buy this BS . . . hence the recent losses of 2 long held Republican House seats. The Republican party is on it’s way to the dustbin of history. Will take a while, but it is clearly dying. Thank goodness for the internet.
If what a terrorist organisation talking crap is so important to the character of a politicians, why hasn’t Lieberman been asking why Bush wasn’t called to the carpet for Al Qaeda thanking him for the fiasco in Iraq?
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 11:
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.
My partner recently had a very disturbing conversation with her grandmother, who condemned her vote for Obama because [brace yourselves], “He’s an Iranian terrorist.”
Hamas, Hizb’allah, Al Sadr’s militias aren’t terrorist organizations, they are protecting their homelands, in their homelands. They provide social services. I believe that the IDF and the U.S. Military is a terrorist organization. Terror is the use of fear or violence for political gain. Bush hasn’t gained much in political capitol but the whole War of Terror has been a fabulous success for all of them. I can’t stand that Zionist Hoodlum Jeo Lieberman. I can’t stand that Kermit talker.
Ed Schultz made a great point the other day: What if someone in, say, the KKK came out and said they would welcome the election of McCain over Obama? Does that have bearing on McCain, his candidacy or his beliefs? Of course not. But we wouldn’t then go around, adding the caveat, “Why does the KKK support him?”
I like Jon Stewart’s response to McCain. When McCain mentioned that Hamas indeed says that they prefer Obama, Stewart responded, “And you take Hamas at its word?”
Lisa Williamson @ 6:
If that were the case, he could be the president for the next eight years.
Actually, it would be hilarious if the KKK endorsed Obama over McRepublican…
Harry Reid still sucks up to this opportunist. Now I would ask of HIM. WH
The electorate voted in a Democratic majority in 2006 in order to pull in the reigns of the out-of-control Bush administration, yet they have failed miserably. And yet all the while complaing that they did not have a large enough majority to override Bush’s vetoes. So WHY is Lieberman’s false support so important?
The Dems should cut loose this albatross around their necks. I cannot see how it would make any difference in their abilities to rebalance the power structure of our government.
Harry Reid still sucks up to this opportunist. Now I would ask of HIM. WHY?
Traitor Joe Lie-to-Dems is a duplicitous egomaniac. When we have a genuine Senatorial majority next year, he should not merely lose his chairmanship. He should be relegated to a dark, basement office, and stripped of all privileges the majority party holds.
From bad tv actor to bad acting Senator:
Willie!
(I always have to post one of these for a Lieberman thread)
Mike Mid City @ 20:
Highly doubtful. Although vice presidents often assume the presidency upon the president’s death, they rarely win elections upon the end of their president’s term.
In fact, in the post-12th Amendment era, it’s only happened twice:
George H.W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan; and
Martin van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson.
Let me disclose straight off that I don’t know much about parliamentary procedure.
Since the ‘06 erections, the Dems have used the old “gotta have 60 votes in Senate” excuse, so I’m guessing there must be committee or sub-committee chairmanship details involved in going from, what is it, 50-49? to, I guess 49-49.
If anyone can indulge my ignorant and lazy question, I’d be much obliged.
It evidently has not occured to either Saint John the Clueless or his vessel Joe Lie-berman that someone at Hamas might just be unstupid enough to anticipate that “endorsing” Obama would be seized upon by Saint John and Lie-berman as a weapon to use against Obama. To rephrase Lie-berman’s question, “Why, then, would they endorse Obama if they want him to win?” One obvious answer is that Hamas actually wants the Great Fool wannabees to win and continue the ineffectual and stupid policies of the current Great Fool.
So, is Saint John Hamas’ “worst nightmare” or their “wet dream?”
Che’s Lounge @ 22:
They’d lose the Senate altogether. It would become 50/50 with Cheney breaking every tie, and Traitor Joe is just petty enough to begin voting with the Republicans on everything for spite.
Corporate Amerika wanted Hillary to run against McCain. Now that Hillary has lost the nomination, Corporate Amerika is stuck supporting McCain. The Corporate media is not going to be able to sell McCain to public. My right-wing Republican dad told me yesterday that he likes Obama. A lot of rank and file GOP members are jumping ship and re-registering as Democrats or Independents. Like my dad said, the GOP is been taken over by a bunch of religious nuts and carpet baggers from Texas.
Widespread @ 27:
I’d be happy to try to answer your question, but….might you rephrase it? I’m actually not sure what you’re asking.
We all know why the KKK would support McSame. The difference is, liberals try go beyond it. The Dems are running against schoolyard bullies. It’s hard to keep dignified.
Bin Laden and every terrorist in the world endorses the American Republican Party and its foreign policy.
After all that’s 100% of their recruitment strategy. Why quit something that has worked so well?
Joe must eat tainted meat. He’s a good candidate for nothing but Alzheimer’s.
Obamas hustling pool games in Kentucky today not hanging out with Hamas.
http://tinyurl.com/4r5mdy
bitter Edwin Hussein @ 32:
That, and the media treats the Senile Saint (and virtually all Republicans) differently. When these kinds of accusations are hurled, the media will feign fairness and hold debates. However……
When McCain says, “Hamas supports Obama,” the talking heads will debate whether and why the accusation matters.
If Obama were to say, “The KKK supports McCain,” the talking heads would debate whether the accusation were fair.
I am he, and I endorse McCain.
Obama wants diplomacy. McCain wants to drop bombs. I’d wager most foreign leaders would prefer the former. Go figure.
6 Lisa Williamson Says: sophiedog @ 4:
LOSERMAN!
What a tool.
Hopefully he will be a VP candidate that loses once again.
What did Al Gore ever see in this jackass?
Just think: this guy could have been Vice President for the last eight years. What could be worse than that? (heh heh heh
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Him running for president now.
Why Blitzer has Liebermann on his show–take a gander at this classic video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI
Where are the pie-in-the-face throwers when you need them? If any one in the world deserves one, LIE-berman does.
5 Myths on Who’s Really ‘Pro-Israel’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....inionsbox1
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Sen. John McCain has said he will be Hamas’ worst nightmare. It’s a juvenile thing to say. The line sounded more convincing when Sly Stallone said it in one of his Rambo movies.
What does the senator propose to do to Hamas? Refuse to recognize the Hamas members who are the legitimately elected representatives of the Palestinians? It’s already been done. Assassinate Hamas’ leadership? The Israelis do that every chance they get. Put Hamas’ elected officeholders in prison? Done that. Seal off the Gaza Strip and impose collective punishment on a million innocent people? The Israelis have done that. Set up roadblocks? Done. Periodically attack the Palestinians with advanced weapons? Done.
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=12816
25 Bonkers Hussein Says: From bad tv actor to bad acting Senator:
Willie!
(I always have to post one of these for a Lieberman thread)
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Is he Alan Colmes real dad?
Post Americans @ 18:
Precisely. And if you want to spin this Hamas/Obama endorsement the other way, you could say they endorse Obama becuase they know it will cause fear in America which leads to a vote for McCain which leads to more of the same clueless, money-bleeding, stumbling-around-in-the-middle-east America. Just America’s enemies like it.
That knocks the chicken shit o-meter for a loop.
Way to marginalize yourself Lieberman.
Hamas was democraticlly elected; actually, much more so than the media generated election of the US of A; but perhaps they feel with a sane US gov’t in place they might well be able to negociate a peace.
But that wouldn’t fit into the Lieberman (or neocons) view, so it must be wrong.
Asimov stated that violence (war) is the last refuge of the incompetent, and certainly the Repugs proved him right.
McCains being dumped by “conservatives” today for Global Warming.
“The global warming bullsh!t he was spewing today has completely erased any chance of my voting for him.”
“Sadly, McCain has now given me a compelling reason to ‘stay home’. I won’t won’t Dem, but I may not pull any lever for POTUS come November.”
“In my mind McCain is a moderate to liberal democrat and I will never vote for him.”
“McCain lost me a long time ago. This crap today was the real McCain. Liberal RAT with a R by his name.”
I agree that Joe L. is giving us all a taste of the best ammo the Repubicans have in their aresenal. Guilt by Association. Classic cheap politics playing to the dumbest denominator in the American electorate. That’s it, that’s all they have.
Those tactics only convince fools and suckers. I don’t believe that a majority of Americans are fools and suckers. I hope to God I’m right.
Obama/Clinton ‘08!!!
What Lieberman is trying to tell us is that we should always capitulate to our enemies and let their their rhetoric guide our policy decisions, like children on whom child psychology works.
I would ask Lieberman if the rantings of those we don’t like is any reason to vote or not vote for someone, and does this play a major factor in the policy decisions he makes.
I think that Hamas probably does support Obama over McCain, given McCain’s endorsement of Bush and neocon foreign policy. What they are leaving out is that likely most of the rest of the world also wishes for Obama’s election over McCain. In other words’ most of British citizens, most of French citizens, most of Belgium citizens, most of (you name it) …..
Probably because Bush’s foreign policy was influenced by dual citizens like Pearl, Wolfowitz, Feith and others, the government of Israel probably wants continuation of the same neocon policies, namely a “spare no expense” Middle East makeover policy championed by McCain and coined “Rouge