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

[Morton K. Brussel]

Disgusting. Obama really is a phony. I'm not surprised that he backed  
Lieberman, their values increasingly appearing similar. Obama is  
closer to Hillary than to Durbin.  It'll be interesting to see how  
the Connecticut Democrats respond. --mkb

On Apr 10, 2006, at 7:21 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> [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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