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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.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: joelieberman; lieberman; obituary; politobit
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To: rdl6989

On March 17th, Lieberman slammed Schumer’s speech saying Israel needed a new leader: “’For a U.S. Senator, let alone a majority leader, let alone the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington, to tell Israelis that it’s time to get rid of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], that’s outrageous,’ Lieberman said in a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable on WABC 770 AM.”


81 posted on 03/27/2024 3:47:14 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: rdl6989

Good man. He was an old fashioned liberal who loved his country.


82 posted on 03/27/2024 3:48:04 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: God luvs America

Same here.


83 posted on 03/27/2024 3:48:39 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: rdl6989

I hope his family isn’t planning on inviting Biden, and especially not to get up and speak. He’ll go off script, and make it all about himself...how he lost Beau fighting in Israel, or Beau fell to his death from the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Or he’ll keep looking at his watch, and go wandering aimlessly around.


84 posted on 03/27/2024 3:49:50 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: McGavin999
MG:
"Good man. He was an old fashioned liberal who loved his country."

bttt

85 posted on 03/27/2024 3:50:48 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: ScaniaBoy

Maybe Chuck You pushed him down the stairs.


86 posted on 03/27/2024 3:55:59 PM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: maro
"That’s how FR started! To make fun of Sore Loserman"

Nah. FR started off with the name of "White Water Papers," I believe. There was a link for this site on Drudge's page. That's how I first found this site. Been here over 26 years. FR was geared more towards Slick Willie, and his impeachment. That's what the March for Justice in Washington, D.C. was about on November 1, 1998. That was a great time, with a lot of great speakers, and awesome fellow Freepers.

87 posted on 03/27/2024 3:57:50 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: rdl6989

Rest In Peace, Joseph Lieberman.


88 posted on 03/27/2024 3:58:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rdl6989
Late in December of '09 the Senate was headed for a vote on the Øbamacare bill. As an observant Jew Joe Lieberman was loathe to travel on the Sabbath, and by sundown Saturday evening in Acela corridor had been shut down by a pounding nor'easter which dumped around two feet of snow along the I-95 megalopolis.

Joe was stuck in Connecticut...in the northeast we were all stuck at home (or at work) so I had time to put together this parody song:

Oh the healthcare reform is frightful
Status quo is so delightful
And since there’s no vote sans Joe
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

The Dems don’t show signs of stopping
Our tax rates will soon be popping
Cancer screens will be cut real low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

If Joe finally leaves tonight
How he'll hate going out in the storm!
But if he would give up the fight
“’bama care” will bring no harm

The bill is slowly dying
Yet the left is still a-trying
But as long as there is no Joe
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Posted it as its own thread on here on that snowy Saturday night and by Sunday the views were in the quin-digits.

89 posted on 03/27/2024 3:59:02 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

understood.
he wasn’t perfect.
nobody (present company excepted, of course) is.

Still, all we need to is compare him to Obammy, Biden, HilLIARy,Schumer....all Democrats and all (imho, anyway) 1000 times worse


90 posted on 03/27/2024 4:00:07 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: tomkat

After the 2000 hanging-chad fiasco, Freepers were protesting at V.P. Gore’s home on the grounds of the Naval Conservatory, holding signs that said: “Get out of Cheney’s house!”


91 posted on 03/27/2024 4:01:27 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: rdl6989
Something in the bible about people who are neither hot nor cold...that God would vomit them out.

sometimes going along just to get along is just as bad as doing evil.

92 posted on 03/27/2024 4:02:35 PM PDT by cherry
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To: tomkat

Still have my Sore/Loserman t-shirt!


93 posted on 03/27/2024 4:04:15 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: tomkat

Still have my Sore/Loserman t-shirt!


94 posted on 03/27/2024 4:04:39 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: rdl6989
Rick Santorum summed him up nicely this evening....

"A gentleman, through and through"

Rest in peace, Sir.

95 posted on 03/27/2024 4:05:16 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: rdl6989
Joe Lieberman was too conservative for Connecticut, even as a Democrat.

He lost his 2006 Senate primary when the turnout was only about 10%. Lieberman ran in the general election as an Independent candidate and won reelection to the Senate, and remained an independent ever since.

Lieberman decided to retire at the end of his term, and was succeeded by Chris Murphy (D), who is still in the Senate.

-PJ

96 posted on 03/27/2024 4:06:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: maro

Really? I came here during the Clinton years.


97 posted on 03/27/2024 4:10:03 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Hildy

The one who died a few years ago was Lautenberg (D-NJ).


98 posted on 03/27/2024 4:13:35 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: rdl6989

Prayers to his family!! He was the last Connecticut Democrat that I voted for. Connecticut Democrats like Joe Lieberman, Ela Grasso (her husband was a principal at my school), Tom Shanahan (a state representative in my hometown), Thomas O’Neil (not Tip, a state representative who was a bar owner), were Conservatives. Now, Connecticut Dems are liberal!


99 posted on 03/27/2024 4:16:10 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Sacajaweau

Last of the breed of reputable Dems.


100 posted on 03/27/2024 4:18:29 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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