Lieberman Hopes His Fate Isn’t Sealed With a Kiss

[JI7]

WASHINGTON, July 15 — On his increasingly difficult path to re-election, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman keeps getting kissed. And not lovingly.

Kisses mock Mr. Lieberman, the incumbent Democrat, all over Connecticut — on signs, on buttons, even on giant parade floats. They commemorate the one President Bush appeared to plant on his cheek after last year’s State of the Union address, a symbol, in the eyes of Mr. Lieberman’s liberal critics, of an unforgivable alliance in support of the Iraq war.

“It’s a ‘Godfather’ kiss — one of those kisses that says, ‘I own you,’ ” said Edward Anderson, a supporter of Mr. Lieberman’s Democratic primary opponent, Ned Lamont, who was distributing “kiss” buttons outside a Lieberman campaign event in Stamford, Conn., on Monday.

In an interview in his Senate office, Mr. Lieberman said he recalled only a hug, not a kiss, but acknowledged, “There has been some doubt, based on the postgame films.” Asked if there had been any subsequent kisses with the president, he said, “None that I’m prepared to talk about,” and chuckled.

Despite his amused disposition, these are down days for Mr. Lieberman, the onetime Democratic nominee for vice president who, six years later, finds himself fighting to save his career amid a strenuous effort by antiwar activists in his own party to dislodge him. Friends say his predicament has left Mr. Lieberman nervous, dispirited and angry, a portrait of a politician stunned to face opponents as passionate in their loathing of his principles as he is proud of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/washington/16lieberman.html?ex=1153108800&en=481fe9324b75bd44&ei=5087%0A

[tularetom]

1. Bwahahaha - "nervous, dispirited and angry"

Maybe Joementum will have his on-air crackup before * has his.

[LiviaOlivia]

2. Hope Joe doesn't get raped

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/lieberman-betrays-rape-vi_b_17312.html

Lieberman said he believes hospitals that refuse to give contraceptives to rape victims for "principled reasons" shouldn't be forced to do so. "In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital,"

Joe "Let Them Eat Cake" Lieberman

[w4rma]

3. He keeps on digging his hole deeper, everytime he says anything. (nt)

[Vidar]

6. Kind of nice to watch.

[EST]

4. That really pisses me off...

The automatic, idiotic assumption that Lieberbush's opposition is the "antiwar activists" in his own party--grrr.
The war support is only part-a significant part-but only a part of the story.

The "KISS" says it all--he's a made repufascist, probably not because he really wants to be but because he just can't bring himself to actually represent the people, instead of himself.

[Joe Bacon]

5. LIEberman is running the most INCOMPETENT camapign I've ever seen!

It's even more incompetent that British Labour's Suicide Note campaign against Thatcher in 1983!

[elfin]

7. He hasn't had to run a "real" campaign for Senate

in ages.

He thought he was "beyond" that trivial pursuit.

Don't worry Joe - Carlyle has a comfy spot for you.

[kath]

8. “He’s being subjected to the hate machine" - Oh, GACK, make me

:puke: :puke:

Hate machine, my ass. As if he doesn't deserve everything he's getting...