Lieberman Serves Meals to Homeless

[Khephra]

By LAUREN FRAYER
Associated Press Writer

December 24, 2003, 7:48 PM EST


WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman donned a beige baseball cap and green apron before serving hamburger casserole, quiche and beef barley soup to the homeless on Christmas Eve.

"They're just like us, but they haven't had a break," said the Connecticut senator, joined by his wife, Hadassah. "When you're in that line putting casserole on the plate, you really know you're doing something good."

With several of his rivals for the Democratic nomination taking a holiday break from the campaign, Lieberman visited So Others Might Eat, or SOME, which dishes out about 800 meals a day at a facility near the U.S. Capitol.

Before the meal, Lieberman tried to boost the spirits of participants in a support group for the homeless, telling them to "stay healthy, hopeful and have faith that things will get better."

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[JohnKleeb]

1. I may not be a big fan of Lieberman but thats a very kind gesture

no doubt.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Yes very kind...

He will be dining on the best food available...right after serving "hamburger caserole". I am touched. :eyes:

Merry Christmas Kleeb.

[JohnKleeb]

3. better than nothin dude

Lieberman is like my least fave candiate in the race. :shrug:
I dont care much for Lieberman personally but its nice. Dont be a dick about it GBNC, maybe those ghosts slepenir mentioned in the lounge last night visited him after all :).

[Skittles]

10. I agree, John

absolutely

[JohnKleeb]

17. thanks

[saskatoon]

21. Kleeb You are going soft in the head my boy!

That asshole did it for votes. Come on get real

[JohnKleeb]

22. whatever

Yeah its likely. God I dislike Lieberman just as much as you all do, sigh give it a rest will ya. Would you rather have him doing something or nothing.

[JI7]

32. also

lieberman came from a family that struggled for basic things. we know about the other candidates like edwards kucinich and gephardt who also made it up from hard work and not much financially, but so did joe lieberman. lieberman also helped black voters to register and be allowed to vote at a time of high discrimination . we may disagree with some of his positions now, but i sure wont dismiss the good he does. he has a pretty good record on the environment also.

[patricia92243]

4. Very nice gesture (but he still won't be nominee)

[JohnKleeb]

6. I dont want him to be the nominee either

[JohnKleeb]

18. Merry Christmas to you GBnC

[blackcat77]

31. I can remember one Christmas...

...when I would have LOVED some hamburger cassarole. You don't have to feed them filet mignon to feed them good, nourishing food. I'm not fan of Lieberman either, but at least he wasn't posing around with some bogus bird like SOMEBODY I can think of.

[JailForBush]

5. Kind gesture? Like Bill Gates' "philanthropy"?

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if George Bush gave a turkey to the homeless?!

Frankly, I think Joe Lieberman has found his life's calling. He should drop out of politics and spend the rest of his pathetic life feeding the homeless. It might seem genuine if he was doing it with no connection to a political campaign.

[Robb]

7. Yeah...

I mean really... serving meals to the homeless. That's next to "kiss babies" and "hand out buttons with your name on them" in the Total Idiot's Guide to Getting Elected, 1955 Edition.

Had no effect on me, I still think he's a jerk. I'd vote for anyone else with a ladle in their hand that day, frankly. :shrug:

[Lithos]

11. How do you know he wasn't?

Sen. Lieberman has been quite active in issues dealing with the homeless. Not only has been very active with Habitat for Humanity and with providing assistance and raising up the issue of the homeless for quite sometime now, he has been doing so well before even the 2000 election.

Cynicism is great as it is a tool which can drive an examination of truth, but like anything, if blindly carried too far it can be destructive. While I am not a fan of Sen. Lieberman and will not vote for him due to his stance on a few singular issues, I know that he has done some great things to help the common person and the Democratic Party.

L-

[JailForBush]

12. Nice try. N/T

[Robb]

14. Fairly put

...and in the spirit of the season, I'll admit I probably went cynical too directly. :thumbsup:

[dax]

28. I was gonna stay out on this but-Joe Citibank really don't care...

If Joe really "cared he wouldn't have defended the banks and accounting firms setting them up to pull off the ponzi scheme hat tricks that put a LOT MORE PEOPLE in the streets when their companies went under and took the retirement accounts with them, making the CEO's rich and everybody else holding their hats. Joe has consistently supported banks over people as in the bankruptcy law where now you can't get out from under those credit card debts your wife or kid ran up if you also get cancer and can't pay for your house-now you never get a new start, unless you are Donald Trump, a Bush, or Ken Lay. Homeless people are created by the politics of sold out Dems like Joe just can't help myself...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

42. I agree Lithos

I would consider that Senator Lieberman has a deep sense of compassion and humanity that is very rarely appreciated or valued. Apart from his contributions to helping the poor, the underprivileged and the homeless, Senator Lieberman was also involved extensively in the civil rights movement and actually went down to some of the most racially contentious areas to participate in some of the civil rights initiatives in these areas.

Senator Lieberman would not be my ideal choice of a candidate –predominantly because of his position on some of the key issues that the Bush Administration has advanced. And, yet, his compassion and empathy for the poor and the underprivileged is both inspirational and exemplary. He has a very positive contribution to make to the Democratic Party and, in terms of his record on civil rights and social justice, we need more Democrats like him

[Terwilliger]

8. shouldn't he be fixing the problem?

I'm not against his charitable acts, but trying to insure that these people get off the streets through a better economic model should be his first priority.

I mean, really, if he was so concerned about the homeless, why does he want to systemartically ignore their concerns with his DLC efforts?

[IndianaGreen]

15. Lieberman could have supported universal health coverage

which would do more for the homeless than this annual foto-op.

People don't want charity, they want hope and a better future. People have the right to living-wage jobs, free health care and education, and a home.

Lieberman could have been a socialist and work to solve all of the inequities in our society. Instead, Lieberman chose to be a champion of ruling class and the status-quo, his conscience being satisfied with being one of Bush's thousand points of light.

BTW, after the reporters were gone, did Lieberman stay there serving food, picking up the trash, and washing dishes?

[mouse7]

16. "...telling them to "stay healthy...""

Not on the health care plan Joe has offered.

Also, I have a Christmas/Thanksgiving "help the homeless" filter. I intentionally dismiss all coverage of supposed acts of charity on these two days. When people do something for the poor any other day of the year, I applaud their actions. However, actions done on these two days are most often done by those pursuing a selfish motive of resolving their own guilt. Homeless people need help the other 363 days of the year, too.

[ParticipatoryDem]

23. Isn't "free health care" charity if one does not work?

And what does UHC have to do with serving food to the hungry? Were they there providing heath care too?

Being a socialist is an even more losing postion than the one Joe is in now.

[Terwilliger]

29. that's right!

because Republicans don't like programs that help the least among us

[ParticipatoryDem]

33. Your words make no sense in the context here

Nothing in this string of threads gave time to the repubs.

[stevebreeze]

36. in fact most who have no health care work!

Do we berate the children of the rich for having health care they 'did not work for"? Of course not! health care being necessary for life with dignity should be available to all regardless of their ability to pay.
:kick:

[The Zanti Regent]

37. Especially after he crippled my nephew

Liberman gave Buch the blank check that sent my nephew to Iraq.

Now he resides at Walter Reed, a quadraplegic with a bullet-severed spinal cord thanks to an Iraqui bullet.

Thanks, Joe, and your pals Gephardt, Kerry and Edwards.

[JailForBush]

9. A good analogy...

My teachers union sends me a Christmas gift - after stabbing me and my students in the back for fifteen years.

[Algorem]

13. "posing for holy pictures".

wadda wad.To bad he can't do anything to really help them,him just being a lowly United States Senator and all.

[maxanne]

19. and where is he the rest of the year?

Why do the homeless only matter at Thanksgiving and Christmas?
I hate this phony posturing so many engage in during this time of year. Everyone gets all weepy, collecting food and coats for those in need - then the rest of the year, those needy people are lazy jerks who oughta get a job and hoist themselves up by their bootstraps.

Hadddasah Lieberman is hardly one of the common folk. She pitched a fit up here, because there wasn't any fresh squeezed orange juice readily available. Sadly, oranges aren't a big NH crop. :eyes:

[mmm]

20. Did she really pitch a bitch about orange juice?

Someone should have kicked her right in the ass!

[maxanne]

26. a number of those present

would have enjoyed giving her a theraputic kick. :evilgrin:

Anyone is entitled to a bad day - but I loathe people who are so impressed with themselves that they make those kinds of scenes.

The kind who ask if the fish sandwich at McDonald's is made with fresh fish...

[joanski01]

24. I would like to know if

Joe and his wife ate some of that "hamburger". Isn't that the meat that is most likely to carry the Mad Cow disease?

[newyorican]

25. Good for him

Happy Holidays

[Forkboy]

27. I'll never knock anyone for doing this

I dont care if it is for votes,it's a good thing.

[Cheswick2.0]

30. agreed

it is a good thing to do. Everyone should do it.

[maxanne]

34. yes they should

all year long.

[BlueCollar]

35. Nice gesture Joe

but your appeasement to the Bushies put a lot of people on the street...

:on edit: You and the rest of the wall-street dems..

[stevebreeze]

38. the reality in homeless shelters is Christmas time is when the LEAST

need help and donations. It's the rest of the year, especially the summer when it is tougher being homeless.

Relatives who will not throw their bum of a relative out in the snow think nothing of it in the summer.

People filled with the spirit of the season this week will carefully step around the homeless a month from now. I know this sounds cynical but it is flat out the truth.

Most homeless in this country work for a living.

It don't have to be this way, it's a conscious choice to house the homeless or give tax cuts to the rich that has been made in our name. It is made by people who got their offices by appealing to the wealthiest among us.
:kick:

[BlueCollar]

39. couldn't have said it better myself...

BRAVO...!!!

:thumbsup:

[lumpy]

40. No kidding

This is so lame.

[eileen_d]

41. I'm no fan of Lieberman, but

I imagine if the headline was "Lieberman Saves Infant From Burning Building" someone on DU would question his motives.

Then again, if Lieberman did save an infant from a burning building, he would most likely use the occasion to bash the other Democratic candidates. ;)

I do agree that homeless shelters need help spread throughout the year, not just at Christmas/Thanksgiving.