John Nichols: Lieberman's Partisan "Bipartisanship"

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from The Nation:




Lieberman's Partisan "Bipartisanship"
posted by John Nichols on 09/03/2008 @ 01:25am




ST. PAUL – The most militantly conservative Republican National Convention in the history of the republic cheered itself hoarse Tuesday night for a pro-choice, pro-civil rights, pro-labor, pro-environment champion of anti-global warming initiatives who hailed the accomplishments of Bill Clinton's presidency.

Such are the vagaries of this strangest of all national conventions that it was a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus who finally focused the attention and energy of the gathering on the campaign to prevail in what he described as "no ordinary election."

And such are the vagaries of Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman's strangest of all political journeys that the man who just eight years ago accepted the Democratic nomination for the vice presidency on Tuesday night, endorsed a Republican candidate for president with whom Lieberman disagrees on many issues and a Republican candidate for vice president with whom he disagrees on almost every issue.

What gives? It comes down, pretty much, to Iraq.

Lieberman, who serves as an independent but identified himself to the delegates as a Democrat, shares McCain's commitment to the neo-conservative approach to foreign policy that McCain suggests may require a hundred year commitment to the occupation of the Middle Eastern land. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/353347/lieberman_s_partisan_bipartisanship