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Joe-Mentum
JOE-MENTUM....Cornerite Yuval Levin passes along this tidbit from the inauguration:
This was, understandably, a very partisan crowd in which I was badly out of place. The loudest boos, to my surprise, were not for Bush and Cheney, who got plenty, but for Joe Lieberman when he was shown on the huge television screens — more than one voice could be heard shouting "traitor" around where I was standing....
Poor Joe. In certain enlightend precincts, anyway, he's more hated than even Dick Cheney. How many people can say that?
Cheney is evil, Lieberman is pathetic. The former is worth hating, the latter is a waste of time.
He wore a baseball cap to the Inauguration. The guy has no class.
Special cruelty is always reserved for traitors.
I enjoyed the use of "enlightened precincts" to describe the hotbeds of grievance where hate is the natural reaction, uninhibited by civilizing influence, to someone who publicly disagrees with you.
Sammler,
Joe can disagree with Democrats all he wants. We respect disagreement.
On the other hand, when he openly supports the opposition he deserves as much respect as an American revolutionary war general who sent dispatches to the British.
Sammler,
You, sir, are a despicable worm, twisting situations for your advantage. Thankfully, gullible scum like you are no longer running the country.
Go back to complaining on AM radio.
So that people do not misunderstand me, I will make things simple.
Lieberman is a pathetic old fool who put friendship above country. If he had any honor left he would step down.
Greenspan is a pathetic old fool who put ideology above country, and thankfully he has stepped down, and appears to have enough honor left to keep his mouth shut.
Shame on both of them.
What amazes me is that I've never met a Jewish person who likes Lieberman. But I've never met Joe. Then again, he might not like himself.
How can we, the progressives, having just suffered through one of the most divisive periods in American politics use the word traitor so carelessly? Lieberman is an opportunistic turncoat to be sure, but we cannot brand someone a traitor for having views we disagree with or changing their views. Kevin Drum, you should be heavy with embarassment for describe any area that hates a man for his ideas as enlightened. I've been reading your posts for a long time but you continue to move away from intelligent discourse towards right-wing style bloviating.
The civilizing influence prevents Lieberman from suffering the vigilante death of Mussolini.
I was there. The loudest boos went to Cheney, then Bush. Yes, Lieberman got a lot too, but nothing could match Cheney's.
Dr. Townsend,
Will all due respect I would hope someone with your education would have better reading comprehension.
I think you better check who said what before you go shooting your ignorant mouth off.
There's nothing necessarily wrong with what LIeberman did. If he thinks the Democrats went down the wrong path and are bad for the country, well, there's a whole party for people who feel that way. The problem with LIeberman is he wants to act like a Republican but wants the benefits that come with being a Democrat when the Democrats win. At least Cheney has the decency to go out into the wilderness when his side loses. LIeberman doesn't even want to give up his committee chairmanship.
That there was booing of the POTUS at the inauguration of a new POTUS just shows how immature some democrats are. Seriously, as a conservative, I have been really encouraged with Obama's picks for some cabinet positions. Why don't the Democrats just move on and forget hatred. It would do a lot to advance the Obama agenda.
Lieberman is not hated for his "ideas" (as if he has any such thing!). He is hated for his despicable tactics and fraud.
Cheney has done much worse to the country, but at least I can almost respect him, as evil as he is. Lieberman is just a smug little parasite living in the bowels of neoconservatism.
Mr. Byers: When you say Senator Lieberman "openly supports the opposition", you mean he often sides with the Republican Party? This is what I would call "public disagreement" -- the difference between us is that I do not view a politician's stating his views, or even casting his vote accordingly, as treason.
I cannot resist pointing out that Lieberman was re-elected during this controversial period, so his vote was backed by an unambiguous popular mandate.
John Hansen, booing is just another form of freedom of speech as is, say "Treason" by Ann Coulter, only with less venomous verbiage and aimed at two specific people, rather than at an overly-generalized group of people.
All the same vices you point out in the Left are just as inherent in the Right, and defining the propriety of a person's actions by that person's voter card is just you being very very lazy.
Really, Mr. Hansen. The only boos were from Democrats? LOL.