Comments on: Third and Hopefully Final Post on Lieberman

By: Paul M.

Paul M. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:47:51 +0000

The way to punish Lieberman is to do so by campaigning against him when he comes up for re-election, since his “crime” was campaigning against Obama.

Let’s see how he does until then. If he get’s out of line then bring all the power of the DNC down into Connecticut at that time.

I know this isn’t very satisfying but he can be useful on a lot of issues.

And let us remember their are a lot of conservative leaning Democrats in Congress and not everybody will be pulling the party line, so that one vote could be very helpful.

I do agree with the King Maker point that Steven makes, but it will also focus attention on Lieberman’s voting record for everyone (including his constituance) to see

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:47:20 +0000

js, I actually read your post the way you meant it to read, and only realized that you had left out “not” when I got to your correction. So no worries here. =)

By: jcs5872

jcs5872 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:54 +0000

With regards to the second sentence in my previous post I mean, of course, no doubt his forgiveness was not entirely selfless. I hate it when that happens. Good grief.
-js

By: jcs5872

jcs5872 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:35:03 +0000

I hope so as well. No doubt, Obama’s forgiveness was entirely selfless. I am sure in the long term he sees Joe as useful to him on some front or other. But, as I said above time will tell.
-js

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:46:40 +0000

Unity is wonderful and I applaud President Obama for taking the high road and avoiding “revenge”.

I just hope it doesn’t come back to bite him in the rear, because to me, it seemed like he also rewarded incompetence.

By: js5872

js5872 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:26:51 +0000

I would like to know how much of the senate vote on Lieberman was influenced by Obama’s own position on the matter. Little secret has been made of the fact that Obama did not want to see Lieberman punished, at least not in any real sense of that term. In the early going anyway, I think I am inclined to agree with Sara’s commment in the first post on this topic. It does, at least on the surface, represent a move away from a more vindictive way of governing. And it does, at least on the surface, underscore Obama’s repeated emphasis on establishing unity. As with most things, I guess time will tell how consequential was the decision to not hold Lieberman accountable.
-js