Nedheads Renew Resolve at Bar

[oberliner]

“I know Bush would not have mentioned me in his speech,” Ned Lamont told his beloved Nedheads – more than 300 of whom gathered for a celebratory reunion bash at Bar, where the bloggers and "netroots" activists renewed their determination to fight for change not just in Iraq, but on health care here at home.

New Haven was a major center of support for Lamont's spirited antiwar challenge to U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman last fall. And it was the scene of Thursday night's spirited reunion -- with the Bush- and Lieberman-supported war in Iraq once again a central theme.

Although the reunion for the activists, volunteers, bloggers, and supporters of Lamont's 2006 senatorial bid was not planned for the night after President Bush's speech announcing an escalation of the U.S. military presence in Iraq, outrage at the news found its way into Lamont’s heartfelt thanks to his supporters. In his address Wednesday night, Bush singled out Lieberman as a supporter of his Iraq strategy.

“I was running against two guys who said that, yes, the troops might begin coming home in '07 or '08,” he said to a crowd made happy by plentiful pizza, beer, and wine. “But I didn’t know they meant 3008!”

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