Liberals Are Patriots, Unctuous Joe

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Liberals Are Patriots, Unctuous Joe
August 13, 2008 04:30 PM ET | John Aloysius Farrell

Sen. Joseph "Unctuous Joe" Lieberman, now working as a warm-up act for the Republican Party, introduced its nominee in Pennsylvania this week by defining this year's election as a choice "between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put his country first...and one candidate who has not."

Let's dismiss, for the moment, the howler that McCain is some sort of sanctified snowy-haired patriot—"The One," if you will—who never makes political calculations.

You can judge for yourself whether McCain's decades in Washington, his involvement in the savings and loan scandal, his ties to lobbyists, his pandering to the Religious Right, his support of President Bush and his flip-flops on taxes, the environment, and other issues are all examples of putting America first.

What's objectionable (though not really surprising) is Lieberman's self-righteousness.

Unctuous Joe has always had a bad case of holier than thou. This is the guy who, as it became clear that he was going to be dumped by his fellow Democrats in his last campaign, announced that he would run as an independent because the fate of his state, nation, and planet required his sage presence in Washington.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/john-farrell/2008/08/13/liberals-are-patriots-unctuous-joe.html

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1. I don't know what it is about that dude.....Attention whore, egotist, ,...what?

But he has no manners....a charactoristic shared by the GOP...

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2. If all things were equal

Joe would get his comeuppance. Unfortunately, I don't see things being very equal anymore. And people like Nancy Pelosi, who fears to tread on any one, isn't helping matters. I don't care if Dems are going to be the next administration and for the rest of my life--justice being served is far more important in the short run--and likely in the long run as well. Allowing this maladministration get away with all the crimes they have committed, it's hard to make the point that "crime doesn't pay" when it's happening right before our eyes, and they're getting away with it to boot.

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3. Them Pubs figured out a way to ROB America...enough so that we are now in debt to our eyeballs

and will be for a long time....

Recession...Depression...econ decline....peeps losing their homes, their jobs, and their self esteem....producing more mental depression than ever before...

All because one man, Rove, and the GOP Machine, who joined together to put a numbskull in office...and they want more of the same with McLoser in there..

The GOP has fucked America and they want us to believe thats what we want..."didn't they vote for it"

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