Joe Lieberman, 2000 vice presidential nominee, dies at 82

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

Joe Lieberman, a longtime senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died Wednesday. He was 82.

Lieberman’s 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 Gore’s 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]

1. He was just chewing out Chuck Schumer last week n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

8. That's what I thought

He was still actively out there...

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Oh. OK.

May he Rest In Piss.

[LeftInTX]

27. OMG!! New one! I'll remember it.

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]

72. I will BECOME a grave pisser when this becomes available:

[Montauk6]

81. So, instead of rocks, would it be more appropriate to put bottles of hand sanitizer on the gravestone?

[TeamProg]

44. Agreed.

[LenaBaby61]

56. Joe 'Asshole' Lieberman passed?

[Hekate]

3. Nicole Wallace eulogizing him along w Matt Dowd and Mark Elias -- she's in tears

Lovely tribute from all three

Rick Stengel on now

[Sky Jewels]

11. Thanks for the heads up. I will avoid watching all the revisionist propaganda

lauding Joe Lieberman, a man who did a great deal harm to this country.

[Hekate]

16. Lieberman is in part being lauded as a "relic of a bygone era"

[Sky Jewels]

19. I will always remember him as "Traitor Joe."

[brooklynite]

50. Perhaps you have a different definition of "treason" than I do.

[elleng]

51. I would rrather laud Senator Jacob Javits, a New York REPUBLICAN.

[Hekate]

22. No revisionism, but you might want to turn off the tv for the next couple of hours. Colleagues...

…are dropping by the studio to give a few kind reminiscences. As one does.

[Sky Jewels]

37. Yep. It happens every time. Some right-wing enabling asshole dies,

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]

35. Nicole Wallace is such a hypocrite!

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.

[barbaraann]

5. I met him twice.

He was gracious when we chatted but didn't thank my husband and me for our hospitality.

[Hekate]

14. You hosted him?

[barbaraann]

18. In our motor home.

We were not included, but we did clean up.

[getagrip_already]

6. Anyway...

[MMBeilis]

7. Funny story. When Al Gore picked him as a running mate, my friends at the temple and I marveled at the....

.....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]

39. Gore got the most votes in Florida in 2000!

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.]

46. Thank you for reminding us of that...

...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]

76. It should never be forgotten. Normalization of known falsehoods is a sign of inevitable collapse.

Just as obliging the will of the minority is undemocratic, no matter the impetus. It undermines the correctional option of the next election.

[Javaman]

9. Where do I go to piss on his grave? nt

[Autumn]

45. Celebrate first. After the funeral you will know where to take a leak.

[Bluejeans]

10. Judas and Satan hugged Lieberman today

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]

12. Hekate suggests you dial it back for a day

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. Why piss on a newbie like that? He is entitled to his/her opinion as long as it doesn't break any rules.

[Hekate]

30. I avoided the urine deposit, as you would have noticed were you not in an emotional state yourself. Maybe.

Carry on — enjoy the rest of your day.

[paleotn]

28. That's a negative, ghost rider.

[Autumn]

33. I disagree. I think Judas and Satan would have better standards.

[Kennah]

62. I heard Satan shook hands, but Judas didn't like the optics of his association with Joe so he stayed away

[Mosby]

43. You know Lieberman is Jewish?

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]

66. Ooh, excellent point!

[Bluejeans]

71. I used two metaphors

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]

80. You invoked Christian eschatology that has nothing to do with Jews.

Your comments don't resonate with Jews, only Christians.

If you want to criticize Leiberman, leave religion out of it.

[PJMcK]

52. Right on! (n/t)

[BeyondGeography]

13. Mostly I will remember him as spiteful

His wife seemed nice.

That’s all I got.

[Botany]

15. Say good things about the dead.... Good he is xxxd.

His along with John McCain and Lindsey Graham’s walking tour of that market in Baghdad cost
a lot of lives.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. I'm not shedding any tears

[dweller]

21. He will be missed

I’m sure by family and friends


I guess


✌🏻

[TeamProg]

47. yeah maybe.

[Fiendish Thingy]

23. No tears from me.

Fuck that guy.

[Oopsie Daisy]

38. We agree!!

[mobeau69]

24. Thoughts snd prayers.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Can we hope that No Labels will give up now?

He seems to have been co-chairman still, and doing a lot of the public appearances.

[Oopsie Daisy]

26. Okay. Bye.

[Prairie Gates]

29. Worst VP pick ever...cost the election

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]

42. You couldn't be more wrong!

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.]

48. Thank you again.

[Autumn]

31. No big loss. I really don't care.

[Tommy Carcetti]

32. Can't say I was a fan, for obvious reasons.

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]

34. Not polite to say disparaging things about the departed, so I'll leave it at that.

Certainly nothing GOOD can be said of him.

[Hekate]

36. All you guys have fun. Trashing thread.

[Oopsie Daisy]

40. Grave-dancing is tacky *

* but I'm going to do it anyway.

[BunkieBandit]

41. Many Democratic Big Dogs will attend funeral,

but they will get a pass eulogizing Joe , perhaps not. If so, what will be said then?

[NanaCat]

74. Then trash it

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]

78. He may have assumed he conducted his life in a proper n meaningful way..

until his very recent 'translation' when he possibly had a face-to-face with his Creator.

Jus' sayin'....

[GoreWon2000]

49. Media still covering up Bush/Florida 2000 election theft

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]

53. A great composer's advice

He said, “Never speak ill of the living. Wait until they’re dead and can’t respond.”

[rambler_american]

54. Nothing in his life

became him like the leaving it,
~ Shakespeare

[SarahD]

55. He had a productive career.

Of sabotaging his own party.

[mpcamb]

57. He let bush2 into office , (at the time and for the next decade plus the worst, least prepared and most damaging

president into office); some legacy!

[0rganism]

58. buh bye Mr. Senator, I'll always remember you as one of the hollowest men

a hollow man, a stuffed man, headpiece full of straw

Enjoy that final meeting in the twilight kingdom, you sure earned it

[wolfie001]

59. No labels lost a big ally

Too bad, not sad.

[NewHendoLib]

60. Noted.

.

[newdayneeded]

61. Well, one less vote for trump

[keroro gunsou]

63. He was a schmuck

I wish I could be nicer about it, but I can’t, 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 won’t go out of my way to grave dance, but I certainly won’t be singing his praises either.

[Hassler]

64. No more Joementum for Loserman

[Maxheader]

65. RIP Joe..

You've done your service for this country.

[harun]

67. I would say the rich and powerful he served are sad

but let's be real, they don't care either.

[CountAllVotes]

68. oh

oh

[2naSalit]

69. Whew!

Really didn't want him involved in this election.

Sorry, all I have is a sigh of relief.

[honest.abe]

70. I met him once at Max's in Wheaton MD near DC several years ago.

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]

73. And no one who mattered

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]

75. Enough of the infighting ppl. Real question is what happens now with his vacated seat

Can anyone shed light please?

[Polybius]

79. Lol

[onetexan]

77. And with Lieberman dead, the No Labels party should die as well. NL is just enabling illiberalism.