[Peace-discuss] Obama's support for the right

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Pro-war senator Lieberman of Connecticut is being challenged
in the Democratic primary by an anti-war candidate, Ned
Lamont.  Which side is our junior senator on?  Alex Cockburn
explains.  --CGE]


...in Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman faced a decidedly cool
audience at a big Democratic dinner at the end of March and
got bailed out by his brother senator from Illinois, Barack
Obama, who told the crowd to haul out their check books and
make sure Lieberman gets returned for another term. What kind
of a signal is this? Here is Obama, endlessly hailed as the
brightest rising star in the Democratic firmament, delivering
(at a closely watched political dinner, with Lieberman's
primary opponent, Ned Lamont, sitting in the crowd) a ringing
endorsement to his "mentor", Lieberman, Bush's closest
Democratic ally on the war in Iraq, and overall pretty much a
symbol of everything that's been wrong with the Democratic
Party for the past twenty years. What a slimy fellow Obama is,
as befits a man symbolizing everything that will continue to
be wrong with the Democratic Party for the next twenty years.
Every time I look up he's doing something disgusting, like
distancing himself from his fellow senator Dick Durbin for
denouncing the torture center at Guantanamo, or cheerleading
the nuke-Iran crowd... 

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