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on August 20, 2008
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Lieberman is speaking at the GOP convention. He’s in good company Monday night, President Bush and Cheney are also speaking that evening.

Hagee: too hot for McCain, just right for Lieberman

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on May 27, 2008
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My loathing of Sen. Lieberman continues to grow and grow. The latest news is that Lieberman is the headline speaker at Pastor John Hagee’s 2008 Christians United For Israel Washington-Israel Summit. Hagee, of course, being the man who Sen. McCain had to disavow just last week after it was revealed that Hagee had some, uh, interesting things to say about Hitler and the Jews. To wit:

John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God’s behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a “hunter,” sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God’s will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.

So there’s that. To recap, Pastor Hagee thinks Hitler was sent by God to hunt the Jews and Sen. Liberman, WHO IS JEWISH, is speaking at his conference? And has defended him on Fox News? Really? J Street has a petition, go ahead and sign it, but sadly I don’t think it will make much of a difference. Lieberman, Hagee, and all the rest can’t go away soon enough.

all links via benen

Update: Had to post this:

…Max Blumenthal observes that Joe Lieberman will speak before a not-really-pro-Israel-despite-what-they-say gathering sponsored by bigoted preacher John Hagee. Hagee, whose endorsement Lieberman’s friend John McCain rejected, is perhaps America’s most prominent advocate of a theodicy-based explanation for the Holocaust — in other words, the contention that six million Jews were asking for it. It’s repugnant that any Jew, let alone the first Jewish candidate for vice president, would lend his imprimatur to anything blessed by an apologist for the Holocaust.

Spencer Ackerman ladies and gentlemen, bringing the hot fire.

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on April 16, 2008
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Now there’s speculation that Lieberman might speak at the Republican Convention. Super.

I really wish Lieberman would go away

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on April 15, 2008
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Its hard for me think of anyone I loath more in politics right now then Sen. Lieberman (outside of Cheney of course). Here’s good ole’ Joe on Fox News yesterday:

NAPOLITANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?

LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he’s obviously very smart and he’s a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t…I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.

It’s a “good question”? Is it reeeeaaly Joe? I mean really really? Yglesias takes this apart:

I assume Lieberman is referring to Obama’s overwhelmingly majoritarian position on Iraq. After all, it’s been the key conceit of “centrists” like McCain and Lieberman ever since 2002 that to be for war in Iraq but somewhat aloof from the Bush administration is the centrist position. After all, it’s the view adhered to be John McCain and Joe Lieberman and McCain and Lieberman are well known moderates so their views must be moderate ones and mainstream and anyone to their left is “far left.”

That’s the central conceit of McCainism and Liebermanism alike, and it’s important to both of them to just keep repeating over and over again. After all, if they stop saying it someone might notice that whether or not either or both of them hold centrist views on some issues, they’re the two most extreme hawks in the Senate at a time when 60+ percent of the population agrees with the orthodox liberal view that we need to lay down a marker for leaving Iraq.

Adding insult to injury, Jason Zengerle points out that Senator Obama actually endorsed Lieberman over Ned Lamont in 2006 and this is how Joe pays the man back. I suppose thats bad karma on Senator Obama’s part but still. Here’s hoping for 60 Dems in the Senate so we don’t even have to bother with Joe anymore.

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on April 7, 2008
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A new poll finds that in a rematch against Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s (I-CT), Ned Lamont (D) and Alan Schlesinger (R), Lamont would by 14 points, 51% to 37%. Talk about buyer’s remorse. Even still, you voted for this guy Connecticut, its on you now.

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on March 31, 2008
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I think the time has more then come for people, particularly the press, to start treating Sen. Lieberman (I-CT) with the same disdain and scorn that Zell Miller got in 2004.