Posted on 09/03/2008 6:45:35 AM PDT by IrishMike
Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats' 2000 vice-presidential nominee, and former Sen. Fred Thompson tore into Democratic nominee Barack Obama Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention with red-meat speeches that painted Republicans as the party of patriots and attacked Democrats as eager to give up in Iraq.
Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, and Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut, were the featured speakers at the Republican gathering's first prime-time session.
Thompson went first with a 35-minute stemwinder that got the crowd cheering. After reciting a lengthy passage about presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's heroism as a Vietnam prisoner of war, Thompson said: "It's pretty clear there are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves: 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?' "
That was a hard jab at Obama, who's been a U.S. senator from Illinois for only 3 { years and remains something of a puzzle to many Americans, polls show.
Thompson took another shot later: "To deal with these challenges the Democrats present a history-making nominee for president; history making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee ever to run for president."
Lieberman said he had another mission: to explain how McCain brought people together. Then he proceeded to rip into Obama.
"When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the battlefield," Lieberman said, "John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion and support the surge (in Iraq), and because of that, today our troops are at last beginning to come home, not in failure but in honor."
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Last night was great!! Especially loved Fred Thompson’s speech. But the vultures are out today in full force circling, circling . . . to see if someone will stumble so they can pick their bones clean.
Palin needs to clean their clocks tonight.
Liberman’s speech contained no red-meat. It was purely designed to appeal to Democrats and Independants. Thompson’s speech was actually pretty light on red-meat, containing mostly details of McCain’s life story. Certainly there were several red-meat lines in Thompson’s speech, but this headline grossly mis-characterizes both speeches.
I wish Liebermann would’ve ditched the domestic issue stuff. Other than that, both speeches were pretty good. I miss the red meat put out there by Zell Miller. THAT was a good old fashioned stemwinder like what’d you hear at the Neshoba County Fair.
Most of which has been spent running for President.
Lieberman’s never given a red-meat speech.
Fred OTOH was terrific. Finally somebody took a switch to Obama.
I am wondering where is Zell?
I hope he hasn’t been thrown under the bus by the GOP.
He won the south for us in ‘04.
JMHO.
Lieberman, “When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the battlefield,” Lieberman said, “John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion and support the surge (in Iraq), and because of that, today our troops are at last beginning to come home, not in failure but in honor.”
Maybe. But I LOVED Thompson’s speech. It’s a more subtle day. Obama pretends to be something he’s not and he presents airs of non-partisan teamsmanship. We know that’s a crock, but that desire is still a part of the middle’s way of thinking. McCain needs those voters. And I still think that Thompson knocked the ball out of the park.
Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is.
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Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union — and won — over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.
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And I can say without fear of contradiction that she [Governor Sarah Palin] is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose … with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.
She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they’re going to drain that swamp.
THE MEDIA TURNING ON BRAVE JOE!!!! HIS SPEECH WAS NOT 'RED MEAT'...the second half had a few good lines, but the speech was actually mild-mannered to an extreme to the point of being boring...especially the first half.
Every time the democrats give a speech like Obama's angry communist speech, we should call it BLUE MOLDY MEAT.
It will be interesting if the pundits on Liberal TV talk over Guliani and Palin during their speeches. I can’t see them sitting still for it. Chris Matthews looked particularly angry last night, and Olberman looked like someone punched him in the solar plexus.
Actually, he's been a senator less than 2 years, and for the majority of that time, he's been out campaigning for the Presidency rather than serving as senator.
This is why the Obamination is such a phony. He's a street thug and the only teams he has ever been on are a racist church and the Chicago political machine. Great qualifications those.
where are the attacks on the Pelosi lead 19% congress??? where are the attacks on harry “the war is lost” reid???
these cowards must be held accountable as well!!!
Why are liberal Democrats given the stage at Republican conventions?
Lieberman’s speech “red meat?” Hardly. It was more like tofu.
But, it wasn’t supposed to be anything else. Fred was the one that was supposed to rev up the base (which he did a great job of). Lieberman’s was a more moderate, relaxed speech designed to appeal to the “post-partisan” crowd, the Rats discontented with the Obamessiah and the nutroots’ acting like little children. In that respect, his speech too was quite good. Joe simply wasn’t going to be a Zell Miller in 2004, going out there and blasting the roof off the place. That’s not how he is.
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Most of which has been spent running for President.
When did he actually start his campaign for president? Dec 11, 2006.
Obama was elected and sworn in as Senator of Illinois in January 4, 2005
Obama has less than two years experience as Senator of Illinois.
Because he’s supporting McCain for President, and he asked to speak.
Hey, I disagree with Lieberman on almost everything other than foreign policy too. But I respect the guy, because unlike so-called “post-partisan” liberals like the Messiah and Slick Willie, Lieberman really is reaching across the aisle in this case, and basically committing political career suicide by doing it. If McCain wins, I expect that Lieberman will end up with some sort of job in his administration, simply because he is toast in the Senate once Dingy Harry gets a hold of him.
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Does he even have that much of a voice with the independent and swing voters in this country?
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