"Is Ned Lamont the Al Qaeda candidate?"

[timontheleft]

This is on http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/11/headline-news-lamont/">Think Progress. What kind of crap are these people trying to spin? I think CNN's http://www.cnn.com/feedback/">feedback box should be blasted for allowing such an inane question to be asked.

:banghead:

[Rose Siding]

1. I already wrote this guy

He's a moron.

[Vickers]

2. No, he's a REAL threat.

:eyes:

[AX10]

3. CNN is the choice network of the Taliban.

[Artdyst]

4. Hardly. Check this out about Mr. and Mrs. Lamont

According to Dave Marsh (in yesterday's Counterpunch)

"Virtually no one seems to have given Ned Lamont much scrutiny but his background is not promising. He became a “self-made” businessman using inherited money; the family fortune came from the J.P. Morgan banking firm. His father served as a Treasury official in the Nixon administration, although -- like many liberal Republicans, even George Bush I -- he now finds himself alienated from his party. Ned Lamont, too, seems to be a Democrat largely because he is not all that comfortable being ruled by Southern Baptists.

Lamont’s wife, Ann Huntress Lamont, is a venture capitalist “specializing in health care and information technology for the financial services industry,” according to the NY Times. Her firm, Oak Investment Partners, is the largest venture capital firm of all time, at $2.5 billion capitalization. Perhaps Ann will help out, a la Hilary Clinton, when it comes time for Ned to deliver on his pledge to improve American health care coverage."

[madfloridian]

6. Provide the link to the Counterpunch article...want to see the author..

That is just plain ugly journalism on the so-called left. I don't like Counterpunch, and I never quote it when they attack any of our Democrats.

[Artdyst]

7. It's an article titled "Meet Mr. and Mrs. Lamont" 8/10/06

Your argument is with the facts, not me, not Counterpunch, and not Mr. Marsh. The facts I quoted are very easy to verify. HM Partners has 1.6 billion under management, but someone on another thread had similar feelings as you, so I did some research to verify THAT person's claim that HM has 30 billion under management! Not quite. And almost a billion less than Mrs. Marsh's firm.

[madfloridian]

10. And?

All of that means what?

Where is the link to the Counterpunch article? They skew everything against Democrats, any Democrats, just as much as the so-called right wing media.

In fact, I often wonder about their purpose as relates to Democrats.

[mmonk]

12. I will fight Lieberman dems as much as repukes.

This isn't a football game where democracy is won and kept just by a numbers score. Truth is the path. Read my sig line.

I know plenty of business people that are not republican oriented in their belief system. I'm living proof.

[madfloridian]

13. Aha! I just read Marsh's last paragraph. He is for Nader. Attacks Lamont

So what does he hope to accomplish by this article? Does he really think the ones like DFA and Jim Dean who supported Lamont don't know him? Does Mr. Marsh think we are stupid?

Here is the quote:

"Too bad time’s up for independents to register. I’d have suggested a run by a favorite son who’s a genuine liberal: Ralph Nader. At any rate, I presume that we will see within the next day or two resounding denunciations, similar to those Ralph and his supporters bore, of Lieberman for his party apostasy. Presumably, it’ll be the biggest headline of tomorrow, after the stuff about the flying pigs.

Dave Marsh is editor of Rock and Rap Confidential. He can be reached at [e-mail]"

Ok, someone's nose is a wee bit out of joint. Counterpunch once again proves it is counter-Democratic Party.

And here is the link to the article which is absolutely smearing the Lamont family. Shame on Dave Marsh for that. Unless you are a Republican, there is no reason to smear Ned Lamont and his family. Think about it.

http://www.counterpunch.org/marsh08102006.html

[Olney Blue]

5. Unforgiveable journalism.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Just finished sending Roberts a very "lovely" e-mail. . .

n/t

[calimary]

9. Let's turn that one around. How 'bout - "Is bush the al Qaeda candidate?"

After all, it's HIS policies that have the entire Middle East on fire, emboldened those who hate us (not to mention increasing their numbers exponentially) and have finally turned Iraq into the terrorist haven it never had been before the war.

I think we have to say this, folks. I think we HAVE to. And then repeat it.

[Eric J in MN]

11. Direct link to comment on Chuck Roberts

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?76

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Lamont must not wait to respond to this

Neither should we.

This is not just an attack on Lamont, but on all who oppose Bush's war against Iraq. It is an attempt to paint as those who don't believe that the invasion of Iraq had anything to do with fighting terrorism, but only became such as a consequence of the action, as active supporters of terrorism.

It is McCarthyism at its worst, but we should be surprised at it. The charge is ridiculous, but we should not expect that it will just be laughed at and forgotten. We must make sure that the charge is seen by all but the willfully blind as the ridiculous and vicious lie that it is.

We don't want to blow this election the way Gore blew 2000 or Kerry blew 2004. There are people out there who still think Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet or that Kerry's heroism in Vietnam was a fraud. We don't want people out there who ought to know better thinking that opposing a failed national security policy is being weak on national security, let alone treason. Opposing Bush's failed war is, in fact, common sense.

Clinton knew how to treat the kind of vicious lies that runs in the Bush family tradition: he had James Carville and his aides get the facts out as quickly as their fax machines would allow.

Lamont must do likewise, whether the attacks come from the White House or a certain turncoat who is too dishonorable to name.

[alfredo]

15. Let's send the Queen of diamonds to CNN.

Remember in "the Manchurian Candidate" it was the Queen of Diamonds that was the trigger for Raymond Shaw (Ned Lamont).