Posted on 10/08/2008 7:47:16 AM PDT by Candor7
Lieberman Calls Obama 'Naïve,' May Bolt Party in Future
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:23 PM
By: Tim Collie and David Patten
Sen. Barack Obama’s “naïve” world view could embolden America’s enemies during one of the most dangerous periods for America since the 1930s, U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Newsmax in an exclusive television sit-down interview Tuesday.
Lieberman, visiting Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also told Newsmax that he is so disappointed with the Democratic Party, he will consider whether to bolt the Democratic Senate caucus next session.
“I believe he’s naïve to think that people like [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Tehran will somehow become America’s friends by talking to them — a warm embrace and a cup of tea. It’s not going to work that way,” said Lieberman.
McCain’s recent decline in the polls was “unfair” and “not rational,” Lieberman said, referring to the negative economic news that has impacted the McCain campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Vid Link of Interview:
http://video.newsmax.com/?assetId=V3220380
The Obama Putsch continues according to the fascist model.
Democrats ought to refute their support for this dangerous candidate
Hey Senator, while you are in Florida, why don't you tell the good citizens there why McCain should get the Jewish vote and not Obama.
The only question with Joe Lieberman is whether he will be kicked out of the Democrat caucus before he leaves voluntarily.
In this session of Congress, the Democrats needed Joe to keep their Senate majority, and control of the Senate. Depending what happens on election day, there may be several more Democrat senators. If the Dem. leadership doesn’t need Joe to keep the majority in the next Congress, they will evict him from the caucus.
He can save face by leaving before they disown him.
Why? This is what the dimocrat party is now. Why they won't call themselves the National Dimocratic Bolshevik Party is beyond me. That is what they are.
I think he has appeared with Palin on a few of her recent stops throughout Florida, so yes, he is doing just that. (Although speaking not just to the Jews.)
well, if there are any non-bolshevicks left......
I like the 2008 Lieberman, he’s a mensch. He needs to leave the Democrats and adjust a few of his domestic views too. His foreign policy is swell. He would do good at Defense or State. Thanks, Joe, for all you’ve done this year.
That I doubt.
Whoops, Riederrere would have still been there.
Thought he was an independent because they bolted him first. He's dead to them politically, so he may as well stop caucusing with them. That won't happen because he'd lose his chairman spots.
Why do you presume Sen. Lieberman didn't?
Oh man, the Middle East (save Israel) would go through conniption fits if Lieberman was Secretary of State.
I hadn’t beening hearing it in the news. While it is important for Floridians to hear this from Lieberman, the rest of the country could benefit.
Lieberman will bolt because he knows that the Dems won’t need him after November to have a majority in the Senate. They will strip him of his committee chairmanship on Jan 20 at the latest due to his apostasy.
I’m actually not opposed to trying it Obama’s way. Let’s send him to Iran for that warm embrace and a cup of tea.
::please!::
“the Middle East (save Israel) would go through conniption fits . . .”
And your point is . . . ? :-)
May Bolt Party in FutureOH GAWD! The last thing we need is more Democrats.
If there is a Dem party in the future.
My belief is that the Dem party is no more. It ended in Denver. Millions left the party. The left has taken it over. Its a Nationalist Socialist Party, just like those of Europe in the 1930s. History is cyclical. The conditions that gave rise to fascism are almost identical today to those of 1930s Europe.
Its all set out in Johnah Goldbergs well researched and annotated work ( Its not polemic).
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of AMerica's Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning"
( Politics of Meaning=political correctness and associate culture, invasion of politics into every aspect of our private lives)
Get it and read it today. You will be glad you did.
They did OK with Madeline Albright.
Or is it different if Jewish heritage is buried?
ping
That may depend if the Senate is one vote short of being filibuster proof.
He needs to come out strong and say again that the Democratic party is not the Socialist party and that as of today He is a Republican!
After all it it the eve of Yom Kippur and that would be be a good time for him to cast aside his sins of being a Deomocrat.
I have to do a slapdown here and now....the down and out attitude of the freepers lately is pathetic....we are not going to lose this election nor are we going to lose more seats in the senate.....cmon now guys and gals, take your prozac and get happy
Exactly. Lieberman could have done some good by joining the Republican caucus this session and tip control of the Senate. If the Dims gain more Senate seats next month, whatever Lieberman does will be irrelevant.
What we must desperately hope for is that the Dims and their RINO allies do not get a filibuster-proof 60 seats.
Good description, and great book. I wrote a review of it where I said, “title nothwithstanding, this is not an angry rant against the left, this is a history book.”
If Obama is elected, Joe won’t be the only Dem to defect.
...So far out there ehhhh????
I’d like to see Joe go to the GOP now; it would swing the reins of power back to the GOP, if only til January.
Lieberman is a Patriot.
The Democratic Party of 2008 is NOT.
Glenn Beck this AM is acting in his typical hyperbolic way saying it’s over for McCain and all about Congress now, more specifically have enough Senators to defend the Alamo.
No it wouldn’t. They changed the rules for Congress after the Jim Jeffords incident. Basically the majority/minority party status was cemented in january of 2007 and it cannot change until january of 2009.
LOL! I'm surprised you expect the MSM to report anything of value concerning The One's opposition.
If he gets kicked out it will just show how intolerant the dems are.
Bring it on.
Lieberman strikes me as a decent guy. I probably disagree with him on 80 to 90 percent of everything, but I think he does love this country.
It really bothered me when he was on the ticket with Gore. He compromised himself far too much and it was disappointing.
quite a few dems switched parties during the clinton years and Obama is no southern governor.
Democrats get highly upset when you question their pseudo-intellectualism. This is why they continually insist that Republicans who beat them are “morons”, “fools”, “monkeys”, “senile”, etc.
Through a paradoxical twist, they equate “intelligence” with “adherence to doctrine”, not actual study of valid knowledge.
It also plays very strongly to common feelings of inadequacy found in the academic world. Many academics feel that they are less capable than they should be, so put on airs of competence and feign superiority.
The end result is pathetic. Democrats who abhor history as “the greatest enemy of socialism”; who likewise have no understanding of foreign policy, economics, or administration.
This is the sorry underpinnings of Obama. His “hope” is just “hope for political power”, but power for its own sake—no idea on how to use it. And “change” is just “change from realism to idealism”. This is how he can promise Trillions of dollars for this, that and the other.
His view of economics is that “If we need money, we just print money”, like the economics of Zimbabwe. No idea how money is made, how an economy works, or what he had for lunch yesterday.
Importantly, the government of Zimbabwe paid a witch a huge sum of money for her “gasoline stick”. When you struck a rock with the stick, gasoline flowed out of the rock.
This is the Democrat understanding of economics in a nutshell.
Problem with that is that public doubts about Obama are not nearly as deep as senior Democrat doubts about him, so Hillary would not expose herself to attacks by saying any such thing. She wants Obama to lose, but she'll do it behind the scenes through tactics like quietly getting her friends at CNN to look into the Obama-Ayers connections, for example.
Joe was with Palin at the Boca Raton Hotel the night before last. He will probably make the condo visits.
Wexler has been to those condos to push Obama and he gets boo’ed by at least half the crowd.
Sid Dinnerstein is the head of the GOP in Palm Beach County and he has been doing a great job.
I think that white Dems will have to vote McCain or they will lose the party. The GOP could flip a lot of these people to Repub because who wants to be in Obama’s party?
If McCain wins, the Clintons are back in control.
I think you added a “not” in your first sentence where it doesn’t belong. :)
J. Goldberg’s Liberal Facism was indeed an interesting history book.
If you have not yet read John Bolton’s - Surrender is Not an Option - I recommend it.
One can only fear how an O victory will misalign our international relationships.
Clintons or Obama? I’ll take the Clintons. Hell, if it meant keeping Obama out of the White House, the GOP should run her and Sarah as the ticket.
Why the heck do you think he was there? Duh.
He introduced Sarah Palin at all the Florida rallies and fundraisers.
Lived in Africa. And get your point exactly!!!
The visualization of Dems going around striking rocks, and putting up little windmills is all too real to be funny, but it is Darwinian. Maybe this is natural selection in process. Now that IS funny!
LOL.
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