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Your Weekly Joe Lieberman Outrage
Is Obama a Marxist? Good question, says Joe Lieberman.
Here's the context. In Bill Kristol's newest column in the NY Times (no link; warmongers don't get links), he says that Obama's "bitter" comments are like Karl Marx's statement that religion is the "opium of the people."
On a radio show yesterday, Fox News' senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano sat down with Joe Lieberman, and the following transpired:
NAPOLITANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?
LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that's a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he's obviously very smart and he's a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I've learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn't…I'd hesitate to say he's a Marxist, but he's got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.
Really, Joe? You may be in or close to mainstream America on a lot of issues, but the reason you're supporting John McCain is his position on the war, which is 100 years of occupation. I don't think that's anywhere near the mainstream.
The media and the blogosphere (I include myself here) are going to have to stop getting worked up every time Lieberman plays attack dog on Obama. There are tons of McCain surrogates who, in the course of any week in this campaign, will take shots at the Democratic nominee; we can't continue to treat Lieberman differently just because he's supposedly a member of the Democratic Party (he's technically an Independent, but whatever). He's a McCain operative now, and will say/do what McCain operatives say/do.
This may well be your last edition of the Weekly Joe Lieberman Outrage.
Comments
Repulsive right wing lap dog.Lieberman,SHAME ON YOU.
Posted by: Roy on 04/15/08 at 8:14 AM Respond
Lets all just be glad that he never really got any 'joementum' during his presidential bid.
Posted by: Michael Z on 04/15/08 at 8:15 AM Respond
Obama by his own words shows that he hates whites, people that have guns to hunt and defend themselves, and Christians(he prefers the African religion, Islam, the religion of his beloved father.) Obama is entitled to his beliefs. But we white folk, are no fools, we are not going to vote for him. McCain will be the next president. You libs, just get use to it.
Posted by: BettyLu on 04/15/08 at 8:18 AM Respond
See, first Obama was a crypto-muslim. But then, maybe he was a crypto-loony christian. But now (thanks, Kristol!) I understand that he is a crypto-marxist.
It's amazing how much insight you can get into a person when you extrapolate wildly from cherrypicked anecdotes stripped of context.
Posted by: Zack on 04/15/08 at 8:59 AM Respond
Bettylu..
YOU ROCK..!!!
Keep speaking the truth, maybe someday these people will loose the rose colored glasses and see the truth..!!
Bill
Posted by: BIll Nigh on 04/15/08 at 9:27 AM Respond
Maybe Joe should point out McCain's fascist tendencies - something like this would do: I was thinking about McCain's position on unions; and it seemed eerily familiar to what we were taught in school about the fascists' perpetual weakening of unions, rather than fighting them head on, because unions were viewed as competing with allegiance to the state. McCain speaks of breaking their propagandized "monopoly" while vapidly saying he is for them...See how it works.
Posted by: cognitive eye on 04/15/08 at 10:25 AM Respond
@ bettylu
At worst, Obama pointed out the way rednecks think and behave. And it looks like your a redneck, too. But you are entitled to your opinion and lifestyle, but please don't include me when you say "we white folk". I do not share your limited thinking. I would be honored to be associated with Obama.
Posted by: another lib on 04/15/08 at 10:38 AM Respond
Yessum, Mizz BettyLu, you sho' is right.
We's gwine ta keep on shufflin' 'long and be proper Negroes from now on....
Posted by: Egalitare on 04/15/08 at 10:44 AM Respond
your are wrong
Posted by: Frank Johnson on 04/15/08 at 11:44 AM Respond
Joe Lieberman is an outspoken Jewish Supremacist. He wants Israel to rule the middle east with their 200 nuclear weapons. He wants to be the Dick Chaney if McCain becomes President so America can nuke Iran. Vote for Obama.
Posted by: MoveOnActonForum on 04/15/08 at 12:00 PM Respond
An advantage of being in the majority racially is I'm not expected to explain myself every time a white person screws up. BettyLu and Bill Nigh make me glad about that.
So Betty, isn't is sexist that only the men get to wear the hoods and robes, while women just get to sew the things?
Posted by: Eric Ferguson on 04/15/08 at 3:31 PM Respond
i don't want to talk what obama IS; i want to talk about what he says and what he'll do. i predict he'll do what state department tells/commands/ advises him to do.
and, folks he'll do what bush is doing and what nixon, clinton, johnson, kennedy have done. if not, he'll be assasinated or die mysteriously. thank you
Posted by: bozhidar balkas on 04/15/08 at 5:00 PM Respond
"So Betty, isn't is sexist that only the men get to wear the hoods and robes, while women just get to sew the things?" Eric, learn how to use spell check. You come across like a real "Red Neck". You are probably a flat [deleted] Georgia Cracker.
Posted by: BettyLu on 04/15/08 at 5:58 PM Respond
You are are wrong
Posted by: Frank Johnson on 04/16/08 at 6:37 AM Respond
Where do you get your information? Everything you have stated is false. Educate yourself if for no other reason so as not to embarass the whole white race with your ignorance. HIS MOTHER WAS WHITE! You don't have to vote for him. I would rather YOU didn't. But do you not care about yourself enough not to be spreading lies? I'm white and you embarass me.
Posted by: WyoCindy on 04/16/08 at 11:52 AM Respond
Are you just sooooo impressed with your big words????? To bad you don't know what they mean. The content of your message suggests you are a narcissist idiot.
Posted by: Cindy on 04/16/08 at 11:56 AM Respond
Gee Cindy, if you think IGNORANCE and EDUCATE are big words, this country is really in trouble. Obviously YOU don't know what they mean.
Posted by: Moesky on 04/16/08 at 12:17 PM Respond
Joe Lieberman should be required to register as a foreign agent. His sole purpose seems to be promoting Israeli interests, even if it destroys the USA.
Posted by: marymomgret on 04/16/08 at 1:03 PM Respond
I wonder why these idiots keep bringing up Obama's religious beliefs and his so called hatred of whites. I guess he hated him Mother and Grandmother who happened to be white and raised him. Also, as far as religion is concerned, in this country, I'm ore afraid of the so-called Christians, of whom Obama actually identifies as his religion, than I am a Muslim. It's amazing that the more devout a Christian claims to be the more anti-Christian they behave. The poor devils!
Posted by: Vicki on 04/16/08 at 1:16 PM Respond
I was born and raised in Connecticut. The fact that Lieberman is pro war is because Ct. is a war industry state. You have Sikorsky for helicopters, Pratt and Whitney for jet engines, Colt Firearms and Winchester. I believe that land mines or small explosives are made there, also. Ct. went bankrupt at the end of the Viet Nam war and Governor Ella Grasso saved the State. Then After the Persian Gulf war the state went bankrupt again. Gov. Wicker then imposed a personal State Income Tax for the first time. He failed to rescind it as he promised. So, when the war in Iraq winds down, tiny Ct. will likely go bankrupt again. I am anti-war,
but I know this is why Lieberman has done what he has; he is trying to save jobs for the state. He will do anything; including becoming an independent or calling a Black presidential candidate a socialist. But Obama is my Senator now, as I live in Illinois. I am proud to say we
have agreed on 99% of what he or I tell one another and he hears from me all the time. He
is not an elitist. Neither am I and I have told him I am angry and bitter many times. but I have no guns and I am not a member of an organized religion; like over 50% of Americans who do not attend church. My church is my world.
Obama will help save it.MKW
Posted by: Marilyn Wargo on 04/16/08 at 1:24 PM Respond
Betty Lu, you shouldn't be too hasty to wish Obama away--if elected he'll provide healthcare to those without-I'm sure that includes your entire clan...even Uncle Dad, Brother Cousin, and your Mama/Sister!
And he will also make sure you can get a full set of dentures (that's what they call false teeth)--and maybe even indoor plumbing!
Yes, Betty Lu, just like them fancy city folk have what live away fer down in the flat lands--them very same folk your bother/uncle tells you about whenever you 2 is off up in the holler, drinkin' shine and spoonin'.
Posted by: Wm. Markie on 04/16/08 at 1:42 PM Respond
Everybody knows that Lieberman's loyalty is too another country and not to the American people. Israel has no oil, the Arabs do. It is not in the American people's economic interest to support Lieberman's country and kin. We have our military in the middle east because we support Lieberman's kin, not America. If we did not support Israel, the Arabs would not hate us so much. We should support the Arabs, then they would not hate us.
Posted by: William on 04/16/08 at 1:47 PM Respond
spoken like A TRUE RACIST
Posted by: George Grover on 04/16/08 at 2:40 PM Respond
I don't get it, George--are you using some new definition for racist?
According to your post, I guess now a racist is someone that even notices there are different races of people on this planet.
Or is it because Israel was mentioned? Anyone mentioning Arabia, Lebanon, Syria...& for sure Palestine in a way other than condemning them to Hell is an Anti-Semite.
Anyone that wonders why is it that Israel can have nuclear weapons, anyway is Anti-Semitic.
Anyone questioning the impact the Israeli built wall is having on the Palestinian People's ability to survive is an Anti-Semite.
Anyone pointing out the obvious (& well documented) instances of outrageous hypocracy regularly committed by Joe LIEberman is an Anti-Semite.
Anyone engaging in anything less than absolute, unquestioning, blind devotion & adoration of the state of Israel is nothing but a filthy, lying, unwashed, Hitler-loving Anti-Semite.
Posted by: Phlekm Hoc-m Schmukyzmscl on 04/16/08 at 3:47 PM Respond
Weiny Joe Liebermann is an another embarrasing chicken hawk but does have the redeeming feature of providing
info to his forgetful traveling companion.
Another Edgar Bergen-Charley McCarthy act in the making?
Posted by: johnW on 04/16/08 at 3:50 PM Respond
I have to wonder if there is even one sub-atomic, quantum particle existing in Lieberman's entire body worth redeeming.
Actually, I didn't have to wonder all that much about it-
Nope, there is absolutely NOTHING redeemable anywhere in, or around, that festering piece of diseased hyena excrement called Joe Lieberman.
I can't possibly imagine whatever it is he whispers in that traiter John McCain's ear is anything less than demonic.
Posted by: Wm. Marquis on 04/16/08 at 4:02 PM Respond
Dear Moesky, I was talking about Zach's comments. Do you blog just to see how ugly and hateful you can be?? Does it make you feel important and special? Didn't you get enough attention from your Mom?
Posted by: WyoCindy on 04/16/08 at 4:24 PM Respond
Republicans use the panacea of religion to get votes, and then the republicans turn and call democrats "marxist" for mentioning religion.
"Hypocritical" doesn't begin to describe it, and Bush's War isn't mainstream just because some sociopath says-so.
Posted by: mslaurel on 04/16/08 at 4:55 PM Respond
Lieberman supports criminals.
STRASBOURG - European Union lawmakers urged Israel not to inflict "collective punishment" on Gaza's population, saying its isolation of the territory had failed and its actions were endangering civilians.
They urged Israel to lift a blockade which has cut supplies to the 1.5 million people in Gaza, run by the Islamist group Hamas, and let in aid and essential goods and services.
"The policy of isolation of the Gaza strip has failed at both the political and humanitarian level," the European Parliament said in an adopted resolution.
"The civilian population should be exempt from any military action and any collective punishment." "The European Parliament calls on Israel to cease military actions killing and endangering civilians, and extrajudicial targeted killings," The resolution said.
Posted by: Carlos J. on 04/16/08 at 6:13 PM Respond
LIE berman supports terrorists & is literally chomping at the bit for McCain to turn him loose on the ME--that soul-less necromancer really will turn all the sand over there into glass (by blanket bombing w/nuclear warheads) He wouldn't hesitate, either--just doing God's earthly work, eh Joe?
And don't expect anything out of McCain, either--unless what you're expecting is Hell on Earth. McCain is soooo deeply corrupt..his character flaws are so deeply ingrained into his being that every cell in his body is pure evil. He sold his soul to Satan way back...while a resident of the Hanoi Hilton. Traitor.
You think Bush had a cake walk for his military? And did whatever the F. he wanted?And behaved like a spoiled punk? That was nothing-McCain is 20X what ever Bush was on his worst day. McCain's father & grandfather were both Admirals in the Navy..for starters! Li'l John graduated from the Naval Academy 3rd from the bottom & didn't give 2 F's about it. His old man fixed it. Li'l John spent all his time cruising around in his Corvette Stingray that Daddy bought, drinking, partying & womanizing. He holds the record for trashing the most Fighter Jets wreck'd in non-battle duty. I'm not sure of the total #, but they've dug up records (very hard to do these days) that showed he destroyed 6 in an 18 month span. Six fighter jets!
There is soooo much more--the dirt on this guy is mind-boggling. And the media has their orders regarding Li'l Johnny's treatment--adoration will do.
Posted by: Wm. Mark E! on 04/16/08 at 7:07 PM Respond
I'm a registered Republican and I agree w/Mark E. Mr. McCain has had too much bad luck, etc. for me to confidently vote for him. Too bad Ron Paul didn't get the support he deserved.
And of course the Dems don't even deserve a chance.
Posted by: Marlene on 04/17/08 at 8:16 AM Respond
William is right that the Arabs never had any problems with the U.S. before the Arab/Israeli conflicts & the Arabs need the U.S. to be fair
and nothing else.any citizen
of any country will not hesitate to do whatever it takes to defend his country from any foreign army.think about it,how many Arab tanks,
F16 fighters are attacking Europ,the U.S. or Israel ? Israel is occupying the Palestinian and NOT the other way around.You just ask yourselves,what would you do if your country was attacked for any reason by a foreign troops ?are you going to give up or defend your beloved country ?
Posted by: massimo on 04/19/08 at 12:30 AM Respond
Joe Lieberman? Oh, yeah, him. Might be a good idea to stop posting about him. I mean, who cares? Who's going to be seeking Joe's input next year, when the Dems won't need his vote? He'll have to become a full-fledged Republican, or a nonentity, or both. I'm betting on both, but then again, so what; he's toast.
Posted by: Grandpa Jim on 04/19/08 at 5:31 PM Respond
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