It’s not the first time I’ve seen this behavior from Lieberman. Someone took my picture shaking hands with Lieberman at the 2000 Democratic Convention. In the picture Joe is not looking at me either and he didn’t look at me during our brief conversation but looked past me. Looked around and over my shoulder but no eye contact. This behavior is common to most politicians and celebrities who could give a rat’s ass for the average person’s opinions or concerns. They lie when say they have only your interests at heart. They are only interested in people with money and influence. That’s when their eyes brighten and when they give their full attention, when they see an opportunity to gain more money and power.
Joe Lieberman keeps exposing the reasons why thinking Democrats want to remove him and others of his ilk from office. Joe is out of touch, arrogant, and acts more often in the best interests of his corporate sponsors and the DC power grid rather than in the interests of those everyday Americans he claims to represent. Also, far be it from me to mention Joe in the same sentence with Israel’s interests for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic.
The quickest way to be labeled unpatriotic by Joe and others is to “criticize the president during a time of war”. The quickest way to be labeled un-Christian and a liberal heathen is to criticize evangelical right-wing Christians. The quickest way to be labeled anti-Semitic is to criticize Israel or any Jewish person and their motives.
Fear is the tool of choice for those who live to control and manipulate others to their advantage. Most average Americans have become conditioned and are afraid of expressing their true opinions – the same as people who live under the rule of ruthless dictators. They fear the powerful will destroy them if they speak out.
In a last ditch effort to save his gravy train Joe is trying to scare voters with the idea that choosing Ned Lamont over him will play right into Republican’s hands. He lamented that he had not “clarified” his criticism of the war and the White House earlier, but he also argued that Republicans were “salivating” over the possibility that Democrats would pick an antiwar liberal instead of Mr. Lieberman.
“They are anxious to say the left wing is taking over, the anti-security wing,” Mr. Lieberman said of Republicans.”
Bullshit!
First of all, Lieberman understands the “they” all too well. He identifies himself as one of them by using the “L” word as derogatory. Republicans use “liberal” and “left-wing” as labels, as dirty words to describe the majority of Americans who want change. When the Lieberman website crashed yesterday he blamed “liberal bloggers”.
We’ve seen this reverse Brer Rabbit ploy used before by the political powerbrokers. Karl Rove, the Republicans, and even establishment Democrats used it to scare voters away from Howard Dean in 2004, saying that Rove’s biggest wet dream was to have Howard Dean as the candidate to challenge Bush. Instead Rove actually feared Dean and was salivating for John Kerry – and it worked - they got him. It’s tactics taken straight from Sun Tzu’s Art of War. If you want to avoid what you fear most just lie and convince your opponent that it’s what you want more than anything. Geez, how stupid can people get?
And all of a sudden Joe is saying that he felt a “heavy personal responsibility” for the war, wanted to bring troops home “as fast as anyone,” and valued Americans’ “right to disagree” with the president and himself over Iraq. All of a sudden Joe is one of us.
Joe is even so desperate he’s invoking images of Clinton calling himself the “Connecticut’s comeback kid”
And don’t forget, when Al Gore chose Lieberman for his running mate in 2000, Joe showed his appreciation and confidence in Al by retaining his senate seat as a fallback.
As David Sirota points out, even if Lamont doesn’t win, the progressives have significantly changed the political environment. If Lamont just comes close it will send shivers down the spineless backs of the establishment politicians in both parties and will put fear in the corporate pirates that have seized the reins of our country.
