Joe -Please Go!

To say that the Lieberman campaign is a lot of fun to watch understates the comedy his career has become. Just full of pratfalls, gaffes, mis-statements, lies, distortions, gotchas, and hilarity, the Senator and his hapless staff seem to have their pants down all day. They've fallen and can't get up.

Lieberman, increasingly viewed comically, commands very little regard within his state – as this editorial from the Journal Inquirer makes clear:

Almost 50 years ago, a reporter asked President Dwight Eisenhower what major contributions his vice president, Richard M. Nixon, had made to the Eisenhower administration. Ike's response was telling and hilarious. He said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one."

Well, a few days ago, our incumbent junior senator, Joe Lieberman, a former candidate for president and vice president of the United States, told reporters that he needed a few more days to formulate, and properly articulate, his position on the war in Iraq. He wouldn't be talking about it with them until then.

Say what?

This man has been in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and he doesn't know what he thinks, or how to express what he thinks, on the war in Iraq?

Like a kid who is flunking an exam because he doesn't know what to write, Lieberman said he needed "more time." He's had 20 years in politics, but give him another week.
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But the senator has offered his own context. He has said previously that there are two reasons we should send him back to the Senate. One is that he is a trans-partisan. He belongs to all parties and to no party. He attends the Democratic caucus and accepts the support of Jack Kemp. He's running on his own party line. The other is his vast experience. He knows the ropes.

Well, if he knows the ropes, why can't Lieberman come up with a coherent position on Iraq?
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Any ordinary citizen who has thought about the war in Iraq and done a little reading on the subject could tell you what he thinks about Iraq - on the spot, unrehearsed, in about three minutes.

Any politician worth his salt should know what he thinks about Iraq, off the top of his head. And he should be willing and able to articulate it.

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