Tue
Sep 2 2008
05:39 pm
By: R. Neal
Lieberman gets McCain convention spotlight
Republicans relegated President Bush to a brief, offsite cameo at their national convention Tuesday night and awarded one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman a prime-time speaking slot...
Wonder if Lieberman will challenge Chris Matthews to a duel?
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the distance between black & white is much further than i would like until now i never noticed that fascism has many disguises -d. boon, 1981
random thought: is it just
random thought: is it just me, or is it just odd as hell that Bush would send his wife, Laura, to the convention, while he just phones it in with an eight minute recorded interview? I mean, doesn't the sitting president normally send the first lady to funerals the president is unable to attend, or international global health conferences? I would think the sitting prez normally shows up at the party convention...
I'm thinking they don't want
I'm thinking they don't want him there. The storms gave them one day to get people used to the idea that he wouldn't be.
I'm thinking they don't want
Is Vice President Sidious still on the bill?
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the distance between black & white is much further than i would like until now i never noticed that fascism has many disguises -d. boon, 1981
Curious, isn't it, that the
Curious, isn't it, that the leader once heralded as the Abraham Lincoln of our century only gets 8 minutes of time in his own party's convention (before the networks start their coverage)?
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
David Brooks observed jsut
David Brooks observed jsut now on PBS that the Rs spent the evening running against the status quo, as if somebody else had been in charge for the last 8 years. "Ain't nobody here but us chickens."
Personlly I have no idea how it went, because I didn't get any further than Fred's "she's the only vp candidate to ever field dress a moose."
Yes, it's curious listening
Yes, it's curious listening to Republicans raving about outsiders and change and reformers and mavericks when they have controlled Congress for most of the past 14 years.
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
I'm confused how Lieberman
I'm confused how Lieberman can keep calling himself a Democrat. Isn't there some kind of truth in advertising rule on that?
Lieberman could not use the
Lieberman could not use the term Democrat or Democratic in his third party name because of Connecticut law concerning party naming. Thus he ran as the candidate for the Connecticut for Lieberman Party. However, he never trademarked or registered the name. Somebody else did that for him and then kicked him out of the party. He refers to himself as an Independent Democrat, but there is no such party and I doubt one could be registered because of the term Democrat. (It could probably be used as a newspaper name, should somebody desire.) He unofficially caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, but they won't sit with him at lunch.
Actually, according to Wiki, other people have referred to themselves as Independent Democrats before- Zadok Casey (also a Jacksonian Democrat at one time), Strom Thurmond , and Harry F. Byrd Jr.- different Byrd than the current Senator. (Thurmond became a Republican and Byrd retired in 1982, still an Independent Democrat.)
The Independent Democrats is also a South African political party.
Did he officially switch his
Did he officially switch his affiliation back from Independent?
Edit: Apparently not. Screengrab from the Senate directory, taken just minutes ago...
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the distance between black & white is much further than i would like until now i never noticed that fascism has many disguises -d. boon, 1981
Fred Thompson made me proud
Fred Thompson made me proud to be a Tennessean last night. Joe Lieberman made me proud to be a Republican. W made me proud that I voted for him twice, particularly in 2000 when he defeated the candidate from D.C. who invented the internet. We needed to keep Gore focused on developing more innovation around his wonderful invention anyway.
Joe Lieberman makes me proud
Joe Lieberman makes me proud that you're a Republican too.
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the distance between black & white is much further than i would like until now i never noticed that fascism has many disguises -d. boon, 1981
Word.
Word.
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Tin Cup is so proud he
Tin Cup is so proud he doesn't have the balls to use his own name when posting to this board. What a pitiful little gutless worm...