Kerry on IWR vote. Also, Leiberman sucks.

[globalvillage]

All in one article.
Have you guys ever read this? I'm looking at the date, and realize I was in Paris at the time this was posted. I've never heard some of this before.

So if there was no private meeting, no agreement to join with the majority, then why vote for the resolution? "It didn't happen in a vacuum," he said. "I'd been supporting the Biden-Lugar Amendment, a bipartisan effort that would have required that the inspections be completed before any military action took place. We had a good chance of passing it. That amendment reflected my position on the war.

"Then one day we turned on the TV and Joe Lieberman was in the Rose Garden with the President, saying that he was supporting the resolution - as is. We realized that, as of that moment, the amendment was effectively dead."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/kerry-calls-to-respond-_b_18844.html?p=2

[kerrygoddess]

1. Great post from RJ

I think I wrote about it on the Dem Daily. RJ was one of the bloggers at the LA Blogger meeting, he's got a Kerry soft spot. :)

[ProSense]

2. Damn! I remember that article.

The kiss didn't have to come four years later---Lieberman could have sealed the deal that day in the Rose Garden.

[wisteria]

3. I think it is better that Lieberman is gone.

He was never with us when it mattered and, not unlike Bush, he seems to think he has been appointed by a higher authority, which makes him right and everyone else wrong.

I wasn't aware of the Rose Garden appearance, this says it all. Lieberman purposely drew attention to himself as the lone Dem Bush supporter,and didn't care that others did not share his opinion.

[Dr Ron]

4. But he's not gone

Now he's officially running against the Democratic nominee.

I wish he was gone, but unfortunately he isn't.

[wisteria]

5. I was actually referring to the loss, but like you ,it does distress me

that he will not call it a day and give up. As usually, he will be used as an example against the Democrats by the Bush administration. You would of thought he could figure this out. This is one reason why he lost. I am hoping with lagging poll numbers, and a lack of money to actually see this foolishness through, he will give up. He risks losing the respect of average Americans for pursuing this route. He lost fair and square.