Haddasah is Lieberman's second wife?

[Cassandra]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/note-to-dense-mainstream-_b_24654.html?p=3#comments

"I guess Clinton's memory must be very short if he forgets how Lieberman came on all sanctimonious and righteous during l'affaire Monica. As though Lieberman has such a great record on family values. Just ask the first Mrs. Lieberman."

Who knew? Do all conservatives ditch their first wives?

[Fridays Child]

1. Elizabeth Haas

http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-lieberman

[Tummler]

2. The true love of Lieberman's life

... is himself.

[snowbear]

16. LOL!

[MADem]

3. Yes, the first one wasn't sufficiently religious, I believe NT

[Cassandra]

4. How pious of him.

Not.

[monarch]

5. He knew that she wasn't religious

when he married her.

[MADem]

6. Yep, but she had a few kids, so then it could be all about him, I guess NT

[Totally Committed]

7. His first wife's name was Betty, and he married her and she

got pregnant during the time of the Vietnam War. Some say he did this to avoid the draft at the time, but I'm not sure Joe is THAT slimy. Dunno.

TC

[Cassandra]

8. Maybe that's why he's so cozy with Cheney.

Lynne made sure to get pregnant just in time to keep Dead-Eye out of Vietnam.

[cantstandbush]

11. Joe is a "chickenhawk." Like most of the neocon war hawks.

This was part of his bio: "Lieberman did not serve in the military; he received an educational deferment while in school,.."

how easy it must be to never have served and send other people's children off to war.

[kskiska]

9. From the Washington Post (9/5/98);

(snip)

Hadassah is Lieberman's second wife. He and his first wife divorced, said a friend, after it had become clear for some time that the two had grown apart. He met Hadassah shortly after his divorce, when he was approached in the synagogue by a woman who said, "I have someone I want you to meet -- but not yet," according to Washington Jewish Week.

Lieberman told the weekly it was good advice because he was not ready to meet his future second wife. Six months later, on Easter Sunday in 1982, while running for attorney general of Connecticut, he found himself with an off day. In a drawer where he kept the names and numbers of prospective dates matchmakers had passed along, he found Hadassah's number. He picked her, according to Washington Jewish Week, because he thought it would be fascinating to go out with someone named Hadassah. (Hadassah is also the name of the Women's Zionist Organization of America.) She turned out to be the child of a Holocaust survivor born in Czechoslovakia.

The two met, the romance developed, they got married.

more… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lieberman090598.htm

[sandnsea]

10. Feingold ditched two

Does that make him a conservative? :shrug:

I really don't know why we have to go down these smeary paths when there are such obvious issues to talk about.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. It doesn't make him a hypocrite.

I'll start being critical of him about the time that he starts getting really sanctimonious and holier than thou.

As long as he's not acting like his religiosity makes him better than the rest of us, he can get as many divorces as he wants as far as I'm concerned.

[sandnsea]

14. Hmmm

I was actually referring just to the issue of divorce. I've never heard Lieberman act in any sanctimonious way about divorce or in any way that would indicate that he thought he was better than anyone because of his marriage.

So I can only guess people are referring to his comments about Clinton to which I would add, Feingold is the only Democrat who voted to go ahead with Clinton's impeachment trial, so maybe he does fit the hypocritical sanctimonious bill after all.

Or maybe this whole thread is just another steaming pile.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Divorce is not an issue, unless there was cruelty or cheating

which goes to the question of the person's character.

I can think of many things to say about Lieberman, but this is not one of them.

[dsc]

15. It is an issue when he bans other people from marring

At least he didn't vote for the FMA but he is decidedly against same sex marriage. I have a big problem with divorcees being against my right to marry.