Back in 2006, Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic primary for his senate seat. Rather than bowing out like any honorable person would do, he became an independent and ran to keep his seat.
During his campaign, Lieberman begged Obama to come and help him kick start his independent bid. Obama obliged and gave the keynote speech at a Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner in Connecticut for Lieberman.
Lieberman showed his gratitude to Obama by stabbing him in the back during this presidential campaign. Stumping for McCain, Lieberman questioned Obama’s leadership, experience, and patriotism. When it started to look like McCain would lose the election, Lieberman started campaigning against the Democrats having a filibuster proof majority.
Now that Lieberman’s candidate has lost the election, Leiberman wants everyone to forgive and forget his actions.
If you agree with me and think Lieberman needs to face the consequences of his actions, sign Fierdoglake’s petition. Let Reid and the other members of the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach committee know that Joe should not be rewarded for his actions.
shea says:
I agree,
11/9/2008, 5:11 pmhe has done a lot of backstabbing,
funny Al Gore became this outspoken environmentalist
and Joe became bitter
Zach says:
very true
The dems no longer need him in their caucus
time to say goodbye
11/10/2008, 11:46 pmJohn says:
Hasn’t Obama said that Lieberman should be invited back into the fold in the interest of unity? That’s good enough for me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/obama-wants-lieberman-to_n_142731.html
11/11/2008, 7:52 pmLola says:
If his affiliation had been reversed and he’d been a republican defecting to Obama for the purposes of the presidential campaign, and republicans were talking as though he should be shunned from the republican party, democrats would be all over them criticizing them for not being open-minded and more. Why can’t he have an opposing opinion from the rest of his party? What happened to being bipartisan? My theory is that people believe in bipartisanship as long as it’s members of the oposing side coming over to support their view.
11/12/2008, 10:23 pmLaura says:
John, I don’t have to agree with Obama on this.
Lola, in 2006 Lieberman pledged to support the ‘08 Democratic candidate for president. He didn’t. It is not about being bipartisan. It’s about keeping a promise. Not only did he break his promise to support Obama, he stabbed him in the back during the campaign. No party should reward that type of behavior.