Jane Hamsher, FDL: I’ll Take “Vote Buying on $60 a Day”

[babylonsister]

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/31/holy-joe-plays-the-race-card/

There is a special satisfaction I am going to take in watching Joe Lieberman get his ass kicked in this race by the African Americans who are showing up to support Ned Lamont.

One of the many delusions under which Holy Joe suffers is that he is black. Or at least he believes that he owns the African American vote because he marched in ‘63. The petulant indignation shown by his proxy Dan Gerstein (who doesn’t speak for the Lieberman campaign, except when he does, anonymously) when Lieberman’s ghetto bona fides were questioned early on in the race by Howie Klein was quite the hoot. Joe simply could not imagine that his opposition to affirmative action, his patronizing attitude toward the CBC, his 42 minute approval of Michael Brown or his love for George Bush (who has trashed just about every institution in the government that protected the rights of minorities) could be regarded with anything but loving admiration and fealty by the African Americans of Connecticut.

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Joe is desperate now. His campaign is trying to put 4,000 people on the ground by election day — he’s literally vote buying. He didn’t see this coming and he’s degenerated into Lee Atwater-style politics, playing the "great man" in his commercials with Bubba this week but stealthily calling Lamont a bigot in flyers distributed in African-American neighborhoods.

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