Joe Lieberman, 2000 vice presidential nominee, dies at 82
Source: Politico
Joe Lieberman, a longtime senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major partys ticket, died Wednesday. He was 82.
Liebermans family stated that he died due to complications from a fall. He was 82 years old. His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed.
Halfway through his 24-year Senate career, Lieberman was chosen as Al Gores running mate for the 2000 presidential election. The ticket lost one of the closest elections in American history. No Jew had ever sought such a lofty office, wrote the authors of Jews in American Politics.
The net effect of the nomination, they added, has been to change the perception of what is possible for Jewish candidates for office for all time.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-2000-vice-presidential-nominee-obit-033980
TexasBushwhacker
(20,192 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,053 posts)He was still actively out there...
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)May he Rest In Piss.
LeftInTX
(25,363 posts)I'm not a grave pisser, but there are a few out there....Usually they die when they're so old, that I really don't care anymore.
AZ8theist
(5,470 posts)Montauk6
(8,077 posts)TeamProg
(6,135 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Hekate
(90,706 posts)Lovely tribute from all three
Rick Stengel on now
Sky Jewels
(7,107 posts)lauding Joe Lieberman, a man who did a great deal harm to this country.
Hekate
(90,706 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,107 posts)brooklynite
(94,585 posts)elleng
(130,939 posts)Hekate
(90,706 posts)are dropping by the studio to give a few kind reminiscences. As one does.
Sky Jewels
(7,107 posts)and then suddenly everyone is supposed to pretend s/he was a great person, no matter what shitty things they did in their life, such as, oh, I don't know, preventing people age 55 and older from getting Medicare and working to get Republicans like Trump elected. I know this Kabuki theater. It's tiresome.
GoreWon2000
(87 posts)Excuse me but this is the same Nicole Wallace who worked for Jeb Bush in Florida while the now infamous felon purge that illegally removed more than 50,000 legally registered African-American democrats from Florida's voting rolls and then helped W during the Florida 2000 election dispute spread the big lie that all of the Florida votes had been counted and recounted which was never true. Several hundred thousand legally cast Florida votes from the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties now sit uncounted in the Florida archives.
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barbaraann
(9,151 posts)He was gracious when we chatted but didn't thank my husband and me for our hospitality.
Hekate
(90,706 posts)barbaraann
(9,151 posts)We were not included, but we did clean up.
getagrip_already
(14,757 posts)MMBeilis
(191 posts).....genius of the pick. We were convinced that Joe would lock up the the Jewish vote in Florida and the ticket would carry our state easily. You'll remember that 2020 didn't work out that way.
GoreWon2000
(87 posts)Having spent 15 years volunteering on election campaigns from local state legislative campaigns to Presidential campaigns when I lived in Florida and living in one of the disputed Florida counties, the ugly truth is that Al Gore got the most votes in Florida. Thanks to 5 corrupt GOP SCOTUS judges who rubberstamped W's election theft, several hundred thousand votes from the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida sit uncounted in the Florida archives and they tell the ugly truth that Al Gore got the most votes in Florida.
Think. Again.
(8,160 posts)...it's far too easy for folks to fall for the false claim that Gore lost that election.
He didn't, he won it, but he lost the supreme court's decision to allow a full and correct vote count.
jaxexpat
(6,831 posts)Just as obliging the will of the minority is undemocratic, no matter the impetus. It undermines the correctional option of the next election.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Autumn
(45,096 posts)Bluejeans
(68 posts)Judas hugged Lieberman today saying, "Great work you did in 2008 backing McCain instead of your own party's nominee, Obama."
Satan hugged Lieberman today saying, "Great work you did too supporting the great lie that Iraq was a threat to the US instead of pointing out the great lie about WMD."
Hekate
(90,706 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Hekate
(90,706 posts)Carry on enjoy the rest of your day.
paleotn
(17,920 posts)Autumn
(45,096 posts)Kennah
(14,273 posts)Mosby
(16,317 posts)Who is Judas to a Jew?
Who is Satan to a Jew?
Maybe you should not project your Christianity and view of the afterlife onto Jews.
Just a thought.
ShazzieB
(16,412 posts)Bluejeans
(68 posts)I used two metaphors in my comment. Lieberman's religion has nothing to do with my use of metaphors; his conduct did.
- One metaphor was to symbolize how Lieberman turned his back on the Democratic party and worked to defeat its presidential candidate.
- One metaphor to symbolize how Lieberman was so strident in his support for the Iraq war which was justified on WMD lies, yet killed and wounded countless Americans, Iraqis and others. He even refused to apologize for it during an MSNBC interview with Mehdi Hassan on Oct 27, 2001.
And yes, I knew Lieberman was Jewish--just like I know my own brother is a practicing Jew.
Mosby
(16,317 posts)Your comments don't resonate with Jews, only Christians.
If you want to criticize Leiberman, leave religion out of it.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)His wife seemed nice.
Thats all I got.
Botany
(70,510 posts)His along with John McCain and Lindsey Grahams walking tour of that market in Baghdad cost
a lot of lives.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)dweller
(23,640 posts)Im sure by family and friends
I guess
✌🏻
TeamProg
(6,135 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,619 posts)Fuck that guy.
Oopsie Daisy
(2,628 posts)mobeau69
(11,145 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)He seems to have been co-chairman still, and doing a lot of the public appearances.
Oopsie Daisy
(2,628 posts)Prairie Gates
(1,010 posts)You could say Palin, sure, but McCain wasn't going to win that anyway. Lieberman's vapid neoliberalism gave Nader the in that pulled just the right amount of votes from Gore.
Extremely poor judgment on Gore's part, too.
GoreWon2000
(87 posts)Nader's big lie that there were no differences between Al Gore and the Bush thief along with the $5 million tv ad campaign paid for by the Republican Leadership Council to spread Nader's big lie in battleground states like Florida made it possible for the Bush thief to get close enough in Florida to have Bush thief's little brother Jeb and Florida campaign co-chair Katherine Harris steal the election by refusing to count all of the uncounted votes as Florida law in 2000 clearly required and then got the GOP SCOTUS majority to rubberstamp their election stealing. Al Gore got the most votes nationally and in Florida and despite Nader and the pro Bush thief media. I spent 15 years volunteering on election campaigns when I lived in Florida and I know the laws that the Bush thief and his election stealers broke and the disputed territory like the back of my hand. It's the pro Bush thief media who continues to refuse to tell this important story.
Think. Again.
(8,160 posts)Autumn
(45,096 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,182 posts)In the end he was a crappy Democrat who could have been a mediocre Republican but ultimately went Independent.
That being said, I do have some affinity for the fact he was the first national politician I saw at a political rally.
2000, in Florida. He ended his speech by tailoring the lyrics of Frank Sinatra's "New York" to "It's up to you, Florida, Florida!"
Which was endearing enough at the time. I guess.
Well, he had a family, so I suppose I feel for them on a personal level.
On a political level...meh.
paleotn
(17,920 posts)Certainly nothing GOOD can be said of him.
Hekate
(90,706 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(2,628 posts)* but I'm going to do it anyway.
BunkieBandit
(82 posts)but they will get a pass eulogizing Joe , perhaps not. If so, what will be said then?
NanaCat
(1,135 posts)You have the right to mourn the loss of someone who actively worked to shit on Democrats.
The rest of us will have the decency to be honest about how we viewed him. One of the stupidest social customs is thinking one must always respect the dead.
I would have danced on Hitler's grave, if I'd been alive then. I did cheer when Bundy died--not the way he died, but that someone who had gone out of his way to hurt people was no longer able to do so.
Lieberman is only slightly lower in my esteem than those two, and he's not entitled to my respect just because he removed himself from the human race. Why should he have that, when he did everything in his power to scorn it?
sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)Jus' sayin'....
GoreWon2000
(87 posts)Even in an article about Joe Lieberman's passing, the media continues to cover-up Bush's theft of the 2000 election. It's pretty scary to think that we have a media in this country that thinks it's ok to not count several hundred thousand votes for President that most surely would've sent the Bush thief back to Texas were it not for his little brother and campaign co-chair in Florida combined with 5 GOP SCOTUS judges.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)He said, Never speak ill of the living. Wait until theyre dead and cant respond.
rambler_american
(789 posts)became him like the leaving it,
~ Shakespeare
SarahD
(1,185 posts)Of sabotaging his own party.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)president into office); some legacy!
0rganism
(23,955 posts)a hollow man, a stuffed man, headpiece full of straw
Enjoy that final meeting in the twilight kingdom, you sure earned it
wolfie001
(2,240 posts)Too bad, not sad.
NewHendoLib
(60,014 posts).
newdayneeded
(1,955 posts)keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)I wish I could be nicer about it, but I cant, especially after he deliberately screwed over key parts of Obamacare and later Medicare. I hope the insurance companies paid him well for that sloppy blowjob he gave them.
That being said, best wishes and condolences to his wife and family in this crappy time. May his memory be a blessing.
I wont go out of my way to grave dance, but I certainly wont be singing his praises either.
Hassler
(3,379 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)You've done your service for this country.
harun
(11,348 posts)but let's be real, they don't care either.
CountAllVotes
(20,875 posts)oh
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)Really didn't want him involved in this election.
Sorry, all I have is a sigh of relief.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)It closed now but was a popular kosher restaurant in the Maryland suburbs. Great Shawarma! He was a decent guy but not a full blooded liberal like most of us here. I think Gore make a mistake choosing him as VP. My Orthodox Jewish friends liked him.
NanaCat
(1,135 posts)Didn't rejoice at his demise.
I despised the self-serving wanker, and I'm not changing my mind because the scumbag did society a favour and will finally push up some daisies.
onetexan
(13,041 posts)Can anyone shed light please?