Joe Lieberman

Keith Olbermann - According to Joe Lieberman, Pastor John Hagee is Moses (Le Daro)

Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

John Hagee will part the Potomac River to lead the McCain team to the promised land of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In search of the irreverent reverends

The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — John McCain's pastors have gone to ground. It's been a rough year for the Republican presidential candidate's prominent evangelical supporters. The Rev. John Hagee got in hot water for suggesting that God was behind the Holocaust and that the Roman Catholic Church is a 'great whore.'

What would be the boldest vice presidential choice John McCain and Barack Obama could make? (Updated)

Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday

The gang behind Newsweek’s Ruckus blog is asking its contributors to answer the following question: “What would be the boldest vice presidential choice John McCain and Barack Obama could make?” If we leave aside the silly and absurd, for McCain, the answer seems obvious: Joe Lieberman. This would double down on his foreign policy experience as well as reinforcing his...

McCain fighting the label 'old and confused'

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thomas Nast's political caricatures in the early 1870s so bedeviled New York City's corrupt Boss Tweed that he once bellowed: "Stop them damn pictures! I don't care what the papers write about me. My constituents can't read. But, damn it, they can see pictures."

McCaskill targets contractor audits

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

By POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAUWASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., says she isn't going to rest until the "dark cloud" that emerged this week over government defense contracts is removed.That cloud is a report by the Government Accountability Office that said supervisors in the Defense Contract Audit Agency instructed auditors to alter audits to favor defense contractors. The report, released...

Daniel Levy: Missing the Symbolism of Obama's Visit to Sderot, Israel

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

Senator Barack Obama was a big hit in Israel. The local TV last night and press this morning was in gushing form. According to Israel's...

• Prospects for Peace: Missing the Symbolism of Obama’s Visit to Sderot, Israel - English Webster

Conn. homeland security grant increases

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Sen. Joe Lieberman says the federal government will be giving Connecticut nearly $15 million in homeland security aid this year, a 42 percent increase over last year's grant.

Lieberman backs Hagee despite calls from Jews to cut ties

American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

comment by Jerry Gordon The following was a note sent to Senator Joe Lieberman’s Washington Senate office, Chief of State, Ms. Clarine Nardi Riddle following his appearance as a key speaker at the CUFI Washington Summit for Israel on Tuesday night. It mirrors some of the comments made by Senator Lieberman in this Jerusalem Post [...]

Republicans for Obama Unite

Liberal Values (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

After the last two elections in which the conventional wisdom was that victory was determined by turning out a candidate’s own party’s base as opposed to attracting swing voters, it is a welcome change to see both parties nominate candidates who have shown interest in attracting support from members of the other party. I hope [...]

He's Baaacckkk ....

Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Sean Smith ... ... the Connecticut native last seen hereabouts as Barack Obama's press secretary during the Pennsylvania primary has been named the campaign's Keystone State spokesman for the fall campaign. "We are thrilled that Sean is coming back to...

Obama Campaign - Republicans Supporting Obama

Threshing Grain (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Campaign is coordinating a blitz by the ‘Obamacans’ "But campaign events featuring Republicans praising Obama are seen as an effective counterpunch to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) aggressive backing of Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) White House bid." Confusion....and who is the author? GOD help us.

Lieberman shows his true colors

Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Yesterday , U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, who is one of the strongest Cuba-haters in the United States Senate, showed his true colors by saying that he has a “bond” with ultra right wing Christian preacher John Hagee. Senator, you are neither Independent nor Democrat. If you support those who preach hate, you are an accomplice of those individuals.

What’s going on? 7.24.2008

Bring it On! (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Tired of Jesus hogging up all the food spots, Allah decides to appear on a piece of meat. South Los Angeles considers a ban on all new fast-food restaurants for one year. The Arctic Circle holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the U.S. Geological [...]

Lieberman ignores concerns, cozies up to radical evangelist

Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

When Joe Lieberman agreed to headline John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel Washington Summit, it was some months ago, before the political controversy over Hagee’s radical worldview, and before even John McCain decided Hagee is a little too nutty to be associated with. I thought it was at least possible that Lieberman, citing his loyalty [...]

• Lieberman ignores concerns, cozies up to radical evangelist - The Carpetbagger Report

McCain Debunks His Own Anbar Gaffe

Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

As we reported earlier today, Senator McCain was caught reinventing the Anbar awakening time line during an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday — an interview CBS inexplicably edited to cover up for McCain. Well, today HuffPo’s Seth Colter Walls has dug up even more proof that the awakening’s most important progress occurred before the [...]