Nader slams Lieberman over U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsement

[kpete]

Nader slams Lieberman over U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsement

(Hartford-AP, Aug. 2, 2006 5:00 PM) _ Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is slamming Senator Joe Lieberman for accepting an endorsement from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Nader, who's from Connecticut, dished out heavy criticism of Lieberman at a press conference in Hartford today.

Nader says Lieberman waffles on important issues and bows to business interests too often, and that it's no surprise he'd be in league with the powerful Chamber of Commerce.

Lieberman's office responded by pointing out the support that the incumbent senator is receiving from progressive groups.

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5231210

[usregimechange]

1. kick

[gully]

2. I love your posts, but I care not what Nader thinks about sqat.

;)

[David Dunham]

3. Nader is a putz. Vote Joe.

[ronnykmarshall]

4. I agree 50%.

[Somawas]

5. Screw Nader.

and if he has any friends,
fuck them, too.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

6. Nader's just mad because Lieberman stole his copy of

"How To Suck Up To Republicans When Running For Office."

[David Dunham]

8. Without Nader, Joe would be VP now.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. And Gore would be president.

:grr:

[SaveElmer]

7. Screw Nader...where is his outrage over the Greens in PA...

Being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party?!

[malaise]

9. Anyone who accepts the endorsement of the

Chamber of Commerce is a sell out.

[lumpy]

12. I agree with you, sellout indeed..

Ever since I heard the head of US Chamber of Commerce answer in response to the question of why the exporting of jobs overseas, I've been boiling ; his response that there is a shortage of qualified workers in the US to fill those jobs. Bull.

[BuyingThyme]

11. From the latest The Nation:

He's more conservative than most Democrats, but he's not Ann Coulter in drag -- even if Coulter is backing him. Lieberman has been the most vocal Democratic backer of Bush's foreign policies, and he has also sided with Senate Republicans to block attempts to filibuster Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination, to explore Social Security privatization, to back free trade and corporate bailouts, to intercede in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and, of course, to engage in tiresome moralizing about Bill Clinton's extramarital shenanigans.

--John Nichols

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/nichols

[lumpy]

13. Liebermann has worn out his welcome

with this Dem when he threw in with Bush with his Mideast foreign policies/war mongering. His past performance regarding social policy is meaningless.