Why is Bill Clinton in Connecticut? -Salon piece

[oberliner]

Why is Bill Clinton in Connecticut?
It helps his wife, and it helps Joe Lieberman connect with a group of long-neglected voters.

By Colin McEnroe

July 24, 2006 | "They're desperate. They're losing," Rep. Maxine Waters told me on Saturday. The California Democrat was 3,000 miles from home in Hartford, Conn., at Ned Lamont for Senate headquarters in the black neighborhood known as the North End. By "they" she meant the Joe Lieberman campaign.

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Why is Bill Clinton stumping for the man who famously rebuked him from the floor of the Senate during Monica-gate eight years ago? Part of the reason is personal. Clinton and Lieberman have known each other nearly 40 years. They met in 1970, when both were Kennedy disciples involved in a Connecticut-wide liberal insurgency that won Lieberman a state Senate seat.

Part of the reason is selfish. Lieberman may have chastised Clinton, but he has also provided a template for the other politician in the Clinton family. Hillary Clinton has undergone a gradual but very public transformation into a kind of Bride of Lieberman, hawkish on the war, adamantly pro-Israel and tracking right on social issues. She even likes to bash video games, just like Joe.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/24/clinton_lieberman/?source=whitelist

[tularetom]

1. The Medium-size Dog loves to suck up

to those who have trashed him the most, like poopy bush and now joementum. On some level I'm sure its part of the campaign to convince the dumbshits to vote for Hillary in '08, but to me it's spineless groveling at level previously exhibited only by McCain.