Ha Ha!!

Great post. I'm sure you will agree it is so sad to see individuals on this site who stupidly scream "traitor", "loser", "has-been", "neo-con", etc. in all their partisan posts when to me it is so refreshing to see politicians who actually stand for something and who are viewed as being non-partisan.

My wish for the new year is for an informed and enlightened electorate that can think beyond party talking points (both sides if the aisle). It's sad that a moderate dem and a moderate republican are villified and criticized rather than admired and championed.

Certainly a person has the legal right to be prejudiced and anti-Semitic but in my opinion, CNN would be acting within appropriate guidelines to reject comments that are not on topic. I also believe that intelligent people can make the determination that Joe's religious heritage is irrelevant to a civilized political discussion and shouild be rejected on that account alone without regard for the offensive nature of the anti-Jewish observations of some of the commentators here.

I am not a liberal PC fanatic-though I am quite proud to be a liberal–and I will not censor anyone's opinion simply beccause it is offensive to me. We are not guaranteed the freedom from being offended. The First Amendment protects unpopular opinions and minority opinions-popular ideas do not need protection-but when the electorate is reduced to employing religious/cultural prejudice as its vehicle for political discourse, American values at their best are being injured for everyone.

God knows one hasn't to look very hard to find substantive issues about which to confront Lieberman, we do not need to fall back on our collective ignorance and cultural prejudices to make our points. I can and do object strongly to his policies on Palestine and his position is likely informed in part on his faith; however, I can attack his Israeli policy without attacking his religion. With a few Maker's Marks and a warm fire I could debate Joe all night about the foolishness of a cosmology developed by a tribal, nomadic, premodern bunch of sheepherders in the millenia preceding the Christian claims of a Holy birth two thousand years ago. But, challenging his religion-actually most of the comments above were more epithet than idea–in a political debate is needlessly offensive, off-point, contray to our traditions in theory and they reflect a big part of the American problem without shining any light on it.

CNN, do your moderating job!

Again, the position stated here is not meant to suggest that I support in any way this weasel of a man, Joe Lieberman. Contrary to the truisms stated repeatedly in these comments, Joe is NOT thinking independently, he is talking in sync with the late Karl Rove's talking points to which most conservatives refer in lieu of a personal effort to gather information and then formulate one's position on any given issue. I beg any of his supporters above to find one Lieberman speech that did not echo what the WH was saying at that time. You will not find one. An "independent thinker" would be one who looks at the lost war in Iraq and thinks through to a rational conclusion to the war that is not informed by political considerations. THAT would be independent- and a shocker. Lieberman hasn't voiced an independent opinion since he arrived in DC.

Endorsing McCain is a political calculation, NOT a principled stand--even if almost anything looks principled after 7 years of lies and deceptions and horrific war.

CNN, do your moderating job! And thanks for the forum you provide.

These old, corrupt Senators get so much power that thier constituents won't abandon them ever for a "freshman" senator.

"Go Joe" -> please, just go away. You're an embarassment to the democratic party, and a total liability to this country's sense of integrity... because you have none.

I used to like McCain, but the Lieberman endorsement would make me far less liekly to vote for him in the general '08 election.

These guys are basically internationalists just like President Bush but obviously disagree with each other on a number of domestic issues. But Lieberman's probabaly had it up to here with the increasingly isolationist Democratic Party that keeps turning towards protectionist and hands-off America-first approaches, whihc are just not practical in today's globalized world.

If America wasn't ready for a Jewish man in office, what makes them think a woman or an African-American man are gonna make it either? Now everyone's rallying around Romney (even though Mormanism is as controversial in the Christian culture as Judiesm, Muslimism or Buddism?).

This country has gone to hell in a handbasket. Don't think we're not going to have a recession or even a depression. Every man, woman and child is burdeoned with a $30K debt as we speak. WHOEVER gets elected is going to have a large hole to climb out of!

How right you are.

Lieberman is not a member of the United States Congress. He looks out more for his beloved Israel than the American voters and taxpayers.
Posted By Timothy / Edison, NJ : December 16, 2007 4:07 pm

To dream the impossible dream! Ron Paul is still languishing at 5%-6% in the polls. The true believers still cling to the shreds of their tattered dream that if we would all just listen to Libertarians we will all be convinced. We've all listened and we've all changed the channel.

Paul is as dingy as all the other Libertarians, adrift in a fantasy world.

McCain-Lieberman 2008

Why are liberals so mean and negative?

These two are both loosers.

WHO CARES! So he raised some more money. The guy is a loon. I like the IDEA of what he preaches, but, he is way to out there.

Getting rid of medicaid/medicare. You just lost every senior citizen/poor persons vote. Doing away with the FDA?

Who will watch over the drug industry?

No DOE. Skyrocketing energy costs!

Pulling all troops out of every county. Bad idea!

He is going to be on Russert next sunday. This will be the last we hear from him. All it will take is a few up front questions, and people will write him off.

BIG DEAL!

What could it hurt? It would give Republicans a decent ticket to vote for and would bring some new issues to the race.

Joe didn't bail on the dems, the dems bailed on him. He had to become an I.

If all dems and reps were like McCain and Lieberman, we would be way better off than we are today

And Joe is from CT not NH. If you are going to make mean comments, at least know what you are talking about.

Two pathetic men!

RP08
thejaykob@hotmail.com

How unusual...

This is the sort of close minded thinking that sunk the Republicans in 2006. Wise up, Democrats, or you're next.

And then maybe we can get a good, strong independent candidate who can think for himself and is not beholden to party lines. Just what America needs to balance out the far right evangelical crazies and the far left moveon.org socialist bozos.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

McCain's "national security standing" disappeared when he began rubber-stamping President George "Criminal Traitor" Bush. McCain has become spineless.

McCain is *not* working across party lines. Lieberman quit being a Democrat the day our Worst. President. Ever. bussed him on national TV.

If New Hampshire's "independent" voters are really independent, they will not support a man who will not say a bad word about the man who trashed his family and his reputation. That man, of course, was Dubya.