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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Hear, hear.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:12:31 -0500
>From: "Robert Naiman " <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's support for the right  
>To: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel at uiuc.edu>
>Cc: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>,
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>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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