Joe Lieberman's responsibilities as a Senator of CT and a supporter of the McCain-Palin campaign have forced him to balance his duties to the Senate and the presidential campaign.
Recently Joe Lieberman promoted a new bill to the senate. It is known as S.3662 and is "An original bill to establish the Controlled Unclassified Information Office, to require policies and procedures for the designation, marking, safeguarding, and dissemination of controlled unclassified information, and for other purposes."
Introduced
Oct 01, 2008
Meanwhile, today, (Sunday October 12th) Joe Lieberman has appeared in Columbus Ohio on the campaign trail with John McCain and Sarah Palin. He is involved in an appearance latched with the title "Have a cup of Joe with Joe" which will be held at
Cup O' Joes-Bexley 2418 E. Main St. Columbus, OH. There he will speak and answer questions.
In the face of the Senate and a campaign, Joe Lieberman still finds time to laud Coleman for his leadership and part in exposing an $80 billion fraud in government operations. Joe Lieberman said quote "He [Coleman] identified multiple vulnerabilities in the Medicare system, which recently led to sweeping changes in Medicare to prevent scam artists from ripping off taxpayer dollars."
http://www.opencongress.org/person/show/300067_joseph_lieberman
On a third and final note the Huffington post published an article asking Joe Lieberman's Rabbi, to confront Joe Lieberman and ask him to dissipate the "hate" growing in the McCain campaign. It even alludes to WWII Germany and Kristallnacht. Does the letter reflect Reality, or Paranoia? Read It Here if you didn't already read it from dan's post.
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Wow, i read through these posts that confirm how irrelevant Joe has become. In 2000, he was a VP candidate in the closest election in recent history, and arguably, the closest ever. Then he gets booted by his own party to become an independent. Now, he is stuck campaigning for a ticket that I doubt he really believes should be in the White House, if he does, that may be more depressing to me than the previous events.
Old, irrelevant, degenerate, whatever you may want to call Lieberman, you have to at least give him some respect. It wasn't as if he was booted from his party for nothing. Despite how unpopular the stance was, Lieberman stood up and spoke in support for continued US presence in Iraq. Lieberman knew how it would tarnish his popularity and annoy the Democratic leadership. Yet Lieberman said, "I'm a loyal Democrat, but I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party, and that's my loyalty to my state and my country."
Whether or not you agree with his positions on Iraq or anything else, at least give him respect for firmly holding his convictions. Maybe he'll end up in a political courage book one day...
Senator Joe Lieberman clearly believes in his decision to support the Republican Ticket. He sacraficed his credability as a democratic or an independent democrat in the process. It was a bold decistion and I believe that Joe Lieberman knows what he is doing. HIs actions are not the actions of an uncertain politician.
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