Lieberman is acting like a baby

[CMT]

I just read an article which said Gore called him and they spoke for four or five minutes but the call was "too late".

Poor Joe. Is he trying to get a sympathy vote out of this or what? This is the man who after Gore elevates him to vice presidential candidate undermines Gore during the recount by agreeing that military ballots postmarked AFTER the election should be admissable. He is the same man who criticized the way Gore ran his campaign by running too far to the left.

Now Joe is crying because Gore didn't endorse him for president. How sad, too bad.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Nobody respects a perpetual victim.

n/t

[grannylib]

2. I think Gore would have shown a lot of class had he the courtesy

to call his former running mate and at least give him a heads-up; then it would not be a distracting issue from the real deal:
let's quit bashing ourselves and each other and BASH BUSH!!

[SadEagle]

3. According to reports, he planned to.

But some of his associates leaked the story before that happened.
If I understood correctly, the actual endorsement was supposed to be a surprise, too.

[Carni]

4. Making an ass of himself IMO

Not to mention...why would Lieberman think that Gore would endorse HIM in light of the way Joe sucked up to bush and his faith based BS immediately after bush was installed? If you ask me he reaped what he sowed (laid down with pigs... dogs... got fleas etc etc)

[cjbuchanan]

5. Lieberman should apologize for attack on Gore a year ago

Back in Aug. of 2002, while Joe said he was waiting for Gore to make up his mind, this is what he said about his former running mate:

Gore has been criticized by some in the centrist DLC for a campaign that some believe took on an economic populist tone that the DLC has been trying to move away from for more than a decade.

Lieberman said that he and Gore ran on a program that was faithful to New Democrat values, but said some of the campaign rhetoric about "the people vs. the powerful" may have sent the wrong message.

"It was not the pro-growth approach," Lieberman said. "It ultimately made it more difficult for us to gain the support of some of the middle class, independent voters who don't see America as 'us vs. them,' but more in Kennedy's terms of a rising tide lifts all boats."

Lieberman said that message was inconsistent with Gore's previous record and "ultimately hurt."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/politics/main516633.shtml

Add to this that Gore tried to call him and it all seems like Joe is just crying to cry.

[beyurslf]

6. Joe should thank him for taking him from a

no-name Senator to someone who is high in the polls. Had Gore not chosen him in 2000, Joe would be under Sharpton and Kucinich in the polls.

[truthspeaker]

7. not to mention

Lieberman fails to acknowledge that the centrist message he accuses Gore of abandoning has not won any elections for the Democrats since 1996.

It it ain't working, throw it out.

[Isere]

8. Hmmmm....here's an alternate view

Only on DU have I heard this interpretation.

Oliphant's Boston Globe column has a different take:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/12/10/lieberman_shows_class_and_spunk/

"JOE LIEBERMAN bounced back smartly last night in a classy assertion of a cause much bigger than his own.

As the most prominent victim of Al Gore's duplicity and Howard Dean's clumsy connivance in a premature push to broker the Democratic presidential nomination, Lieberman displayed a welcome revival of the spunk and good humor that makes him a valued national leader.

His calm assertion that the Gore-Dean power move -- not accompanied by even the perfunctory courtesy of a heads-up to a former running mate -- had doubled his determination to campaign was actually a needed defense of the campaign itself. He might even be right that "my chances probably increased today."

John Kerry also had the cool presence to couple his own reaffirmation of belief in his candidacy with the generous observation that it had been Lieberman who delayed his own candidacy (probably hurting its launch) until Gore decided a year ago that he would not be running himself. That brought the first spontaneous audience applause of the evening in New Hampshire..."