Obama in heated conversation with Lieberman
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"Senator Joe Lieberman, serving aptly as John McCain's foreign policy attack dog, jumped on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday to rip holes into Barack Obama's stance on Israel.
Playing off of Obama's address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the Connecticut independent acknowledged that he hadn't heard the speech -- and urged for a "civil and constructive" presidential campaign -- before taking Obama to task for not being consistently tough on Iran.
"I appreciate many of the very good intentions to Israel and Israeli security that Senator Obama expressed today," said Lieberman. "I thought in the speech there was a disconnect between things Senator Obama said today, particularly in regard to Iran, and things he has said or done earlier either in the campaign or the Senate."
The crux of Lieberman's argument, however, was that Obama was putting the blame for Iran's rise in the Middle East on America's doorstep, pushing the argument that the Iraq war had strengthened Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's standing in the region and left Israel less secure.
"If Israel is in danger today it is not because of us foreign policy, which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way," he said. "It is not because of what we have done in Iraq. It is because Iran is a fanatical, terrorist, expansionist state and has a leader and a leadership that constantly threatens to extinguish the state of Israel"."
by: Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
I'm sorry, but I want to hear about Americans, first, second and third. Our military is our responsibility. Our leaders need to consider what is a danger to the United States, when we send them off to war. This is American politics and I wish Joe Lieberman and others would work as hard for issues that will benefit Americans.
Playing off of Obama's address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the Connecticut independent acknowledged that he hadn't heard the speech -- and urged for a "civil and constructive" presidential campaign -- before taking Obama to task for not being consistently tough on Iran.
"I appreciate many of the very good intentions to Israel and Israeli security that Senator Obama expressed today," said Lieberman. "I thought in the speech there was a disconnect between things Senator Obama said today, particularly in regard to Iran, and things he has said or done earlier either in the campaign or the Senate."
The crux of Lieberman's argument, however, was that Obama was putting the blame for Iran's rise in the Middle East on America's doorstep, pushing the argument that the Iraq war had strengthened Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's standing in the region and left Israel less secure.
"If Israel is in danger today it is not because of us foreign policy, which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way," he said. "It is not because of what we have done in Iraq. It is because Iran is a fanatical, terrorist, expansionist state and has a leader and a leadership that constantly threatens to extinguish the state of Israel"."
by: Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
I'm sorry, but I want to hear about Americans, first, second and third. Our military is our responsibility. Our leaders need to consider what is a danger to the United States, when we send them off to war. This is American politics and I wish Joe Lieberman and others would work as hard for issues that will benefit Americans.
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lieberman exudes a strange vibe
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Is this the best he can do?
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- PoisonTheMonkey
- 2 months ago
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I wonder if the phrase "wolf in sheep's clothing" means anything to Good Ole Joe?
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- Scudettostarved
- 2 months ago
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What a joke that guy is suppossed to a democrat? It just goes to show that some peoples goals are to make sure we are constanstly at war with someone.
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