"Joe Sold Out": A Special Message to Joe Lieberman From His College Roommate

[kpete]

A Special Message to Joe Lieberman From His College Roommate

By David Wyles

Over the past few years, we have published appeals to Joe Lieberman by his Yale undergraduate roommate, David Wyles. Today, we are posting David's holiday message to the man who you never want to get in between him and a camera: Joe Lieberman.

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I was Joe Lieberman's friend and roommate for all four years at Yale. I supported him personally and politically (helping him to be elected as Chairman of the Yale Daily News, then the most prominent and powerful political position at Yale). We had a number of truly talented people at the News (like Paul Steiger, later to be managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, Bob Kaiser, associate editor of the Washington Post, and John Sacks, chief correspondent for Time magazine), but Joe won the job because he appealed to all factions within the News. Basically, he won the political vote among these factions because he appeared to listen and agree with all of them. He was a "natural" -- so obviously good at politics that I predicted while we were still undergraduates at Yale that he would be the first Jewish President of the United States.

Thank God I was wrong. (Although if Gore had been elected, we probably wouldn't have preemptively invaded Iraq.) When Joe sold out Gore and the Democratic Party in Florida after the 2000 election (blessing all military votes without regard to proper electoral procedures), I lost faith in him. Since then, he has proven himself to be a sell-out to the Bush Administration's War on Iraq, to the Bush nominations of reactionary justices to the Supreme Court (where were his threats of filibuster then?), and now to the fiscal interests of Big Pharma and Big Insurance. He is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aetna and Pfister. He no longer cares about what's good for the American people. He has clearly sold his soul to the Dark Side of capitalism.

David Wyles
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9915

[Vidar]

1. K&R

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[liam_laddie]

9. K & R n/t

[mascarax]

3. Nice - K&R

When did he care about "what's good for the American people"?
Assuming he did (and I'll give him the benefit of that as I haven't followed his career except the last decade), when did that change? Was it 2000, as Wyles implies?

(Yes, I'm seriously asking.)

[opihimoimoi]

4. The man is a PIG SOB

[BolivarianHero]

5. Even Linda McMahon would be a better Senator...

Epic fail. Incidentally, expressing any support for Lieberman on DU should be an instapizza.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Kick and rec

[arthritisR_US]

7. k & r, with pleasure! n/t

[AzDar]

8. K & R

[unblock]

10. pfister?

http://www.strongmanphil.com/

:shrug:

[snagglepuss]

11. K&R thanks for posting nt

[mother earth]

12. Yessirree, Joe is a damned sell-out and a true snake.

He sold his soul and the people know it.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Sell-outs sadly happen a lot, but your jaw drops when it occupies...

... such high positions in government.

Yes, Joe's a sellout. But wait- Harry Reid is one too. Harry should have snapped Joes neck back quicker than those turkeys behind Sarah Pallin for fucking with democracy and selling us all out.

So, Joe's a sellout, and Harry Reid's one too. If Reid lets the kind of health care legislation go through without a public option, we should all remind him of that.

When you hear tales of a Joe Liberman, it verifies the obvious, but when the Senate lets the Joe Libermans get away with their fuck ups and misdeeds and not caring if anyone get any kind of health care reform, they ALL should be labeled and swimming in this pejorative soup.

:grr:

[budkin]

14. K&R... good read!

[me b zola]

15. K&R

[RedCloud]

16. Hey Joe! Where you going with that filibuster in your mouth?

[southern_belle]

17. k & r n/t

[Enthusiast]

18. Lieberman should come about.

He should see the error of his way and spit in the face of the corporations by supporting a strong public option.

The thing is, the sad part is, Joe knows full well he is wrong. He also knows full well it is not a matter of principle.

[AuBricker]

23. Joe's Chairmanships

The Democrats should strip Joe of all his chairmanships if he attempts to filibusterer the healthcare bill.

[Enthusiast]

25. Yup. nt

[Lilyeye]

19. Good read. K&R

[Mind_your_head]

20. Joe doesn't care what his old roomate thinks of him!

Joe only cares about the $$$$$$$, and more importantly the power & influence that 'perceived money' brings with it. Joe's former roomate isn't about money. Kudos to him for that!

Joe Lieberman is a scumbag. We agree on that? Yes.

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[dreamnightwind]

22. Yep.

You got it right. Also re healthcare, his wife makes a lot of money lobbying for the health insurance industry.

When your old college buddy goes public about how corrupt you are, it's a pretty good sign you've jumped the shark.

[marshall]

24. He should have held out for more money, like Mary Landrieu

When it comes to selling yourself to the highest bidder, she wins hands down.

[Angry Dragon]

26. kick

[Swamp Rat]

27. kick

[Cha]

28. KICK