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

[Robert Naiman]

let's do a peace zap the next time he comes to champaign.

On 4/10/06, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 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...
> >
> > <http://counterpunch.org/>
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