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Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice presidential nominee, dies at 82
Washington Post ^ | March 27, 2024 | Michael H. Brown

Posted on 03/27/2024 2:42:52 PM PDT by rdl6989

Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York City. He was 82.

The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: joelieberman; lieberman; obituary; politobit
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1 posted on 03/27/2024 2:42:52 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

Always liked him.


2 posted on 03/27/2024 2:45:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rdl6989

RIP, Sore/Loserman


3 posted on 03/27/2024 2:45:27 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Sacajaweau

Didn’t seem like a bad egg to me, either.


4 posted on 03/27/2024 2:47:23 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: rdl6989

One of the few real Democrats. He wasn’t that bad of a guy.

RIP JL


5 posted on 03/27/2024 2:47:52 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: rdl6989

Maybe Joe Biden will invite Bibi Netanyahu to give the eulogy at Lieberman’s funeral Mass. :-P


6 posted on 03/27/2024 2:49:13 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: rdl6989

Um. He was a main No Labels guy.

They were going to run an alternate candidate.


7 posted on 03/27/2024 2:49:29 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: rdl6989

He was one of the good ones


8 posted on 03/27/2024 2:49:51 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: rdl6989

Looks like the WashCompost has suspended the paywall for this article.


9 posted on 03/27/2024 2:50:28 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: rdl6989

very sad.


10 posted on 03/27/2024 2:50:38 PM PDT by avital2 ("n)
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We lost joementum but still have joementia


11 posted on 03/27/2024 2:50:50 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: rdl6989

a decent man despite his party label, I’ll miss him


12 posted on 03/27/2024 2:51:13 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The swing vote who gave us Øbama”care”.

Neverless, may he find rest in the bosom of Abraham.


13 posted on 03/27/2024 2:51:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Lol.

Biden will request that a Bishop say the mass in the Synagogue.


14 posted on 03/27/2024 2:51:25 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: rdl6989

Joementum is gone?


15 posted on 03/27/2024 2:51:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: faithhopecharity

He was ok. I didn’t like his answers to pointed questions such as “I didn’t see the report”.


16 posted on 03/27/2024 2:52:21 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Sacajaweau

Yup- one of the few, if not only, rat i actually liked


17 posted on 03/27/2024 2:52:30 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Sacajaweau

Memory Eternal!


18 posted on 03/27/2024 2:52:49 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Paladin2

Wasn’t he part of the Senate? Serving? Will this make a difference in voting?


19 posted on 03/27/2024 2:52:49 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: lightman

May he find rest in the bosom of Stacy Abrams. :-0


20 posted on 03/27/2024 2:53:48 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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