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Will McCain Choose Joe Lieberman as His Running Mate?

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Submitted by gretavo on Tue, 2008-03-18 18:55.
Yes, thereby laying claim to being the REAL "unity and change" ticket.
69% (9 votes)
No, he'll pick one of the "religious" warmongers from his own party (Romney or Huckabee)
31% (4 votes)
Total votes: 13
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dicktater's picture

And they will call him...

Submitted by dicktater on Wed, 2008-03-19 03:30.

...the Great Lieberator.

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gretavo's picture

or...

Submitted by gretavo on Wed, 2008-03-19 11:25.

Major Asshole...

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gretavo's picture

Preview of 2009

Submitted by gretavo on Wed, 2008-03-19 17:26.

Vice President Joe Lieberman today again had to remind President McCain who Isr-er America's current enemy is...


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gretavo's picture

WTCD caption contest!

Submitted by gretavo on Wed, 2008-03-19 17:49.

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dicktater's picture

I love the smell of napalm in the morning, Joe.

Submitted by dicktater on Thu, 2008-03-20 03:05.

It smells like................ your ass.


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P45's picture

I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way...

Submitted by P45 on Thu, 2008-03-20 20:06.

Medication time. Medication time.

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Harley Guy's picture

JL: Don't worry, John...

Submitted by Harley Guy on Thu, 2008-03-20 22:49.

..those are definitely not the same birds that were following you in Tikrit--besides, around here vultures are considered a *good* omen.

JM: Into Crete? When were we in--oh jeez I've crapped my pants again.

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Annoymouse's picture

SCI FI IS-NOW-REAL

Submitted by Annoymouse on Fri, 2008-03-21 02:42.

MY CHILDREN

 

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Annoymouse's picture

mmmore brains

Submitted by Annoymouse on Fri, 2008-03-21 04:47.

grrrrmmmm must eat brains master

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dicktater's picture

Will Joe Lieberman be John McCain's Assisted Living Caretaker...

Submitted by dicktater on Sat, 2008-03-22 23:12.

Will Joe Lieberman be John McCain's Assisted Living Caretaker and Vice-President as They Bomb Iran?

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/069

BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

Mark Karlin

Editor and Publisher

March 22, 2008

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In case you've been so caught up in the battle royale of the Democratic primaries, Joe Lieberman has been escorting John McCain around Iraq and Israel, acting as his assisted living caretaker.

Not only has Lieberman once or twice bailed McCain out of his confusion between Sunnis and Shiites, he most recently saved McCain from his equating the Jewish Holiday of Purim with Halloween while jaunting around Israel.

In my younger days, I played the role of Mordechai in a youthful Synagogue Purim play. Mordechai helps save the Jews from the evil plot of Haman to have them destroyed by the Persians of ancient times. The key heroine is Queen Esther who persuades her husband, King Ahasuerus, to assist in keeping the Jews from being annihilated by Haman's forces. As a result, the Jews survive a potential Holocaust and Purim is celebrated with the reading of the Book of Esther, or as it has come to be called in the vernacular, "the whole Megillah."

Yes, costumes are worn to recreate the festive celebration of escaping annihilation and re-enacting the drama, but it is not Halloween.

But McCain's ongoing confusion about Purim, who the enemy is in Iraq, the role of Iran, and in general the realities of the U.S. presence in the Middle East is altogether fitting for the Lieberman and McCain "Bomb Iran and Stay in Iraq for 100 Years Tour."

Joe, John's caretaker and potential vice-presidential candidate, bails McCain out of his chronic misstatements about foreign policy details. McCain is like Cheney in that his attitude is who cares about the specifics, we're America and we're going to beat "their" butts into the ground.

When Barack Obama says that McCain in the White House would be the third Bush term, he's certainly right on foreign policy. Except that McCain would be Bush and Cheney on steroids. McCain is determined to achieve "victory" over "them" (whoever "they" might be), because that is how he -- in large part -- defines his patriotism: the success of the extension of the American military empire is a basic assumption of the Pledge of Allegiance to hair-trigger John.

Long ago the Iraq and Afghansitan wars -- and the possible pending bombing of Iran -- basically stopped being accepted as being about defeating terrorism (that's why the difference between Shiites and Sunnis and their relationship to Iran don't really matter to McCain.) They are about the expansion of empire, and the "victory" over "them," third world wannabees who need to be crushed because they are in the way of the great and mighty American military machine.

Of course this myth of the omnipotence of military might combined with flag lapel pin nationalism leaves us even more vulnerable to terrorism, because terrorism is not the real target of this vast multi-trillion dollar military enterprise.

No McCain and Lieberman are not in Purim costumes -- but ironically Lieberman is hot to bomb Iran because the right wing Likudnicks in Israel fear that Iran will succeed in the annihilation of the Jews that Haman planned -- but they are ready to light a match and explode the Middle East powder keg, from "day one" if elected.

Joe and John remind us of the old Greek riddle: What has one leg in the morning, two legs in the day, and three legs at night? A baby, an adult, and an elderly person with a cane.

Except that McCain and Lieberman would have four legs at midnight as they would lead us into a nuclear Armageddon from which we might not awake, were they to be elected as the GOP "Dream Team."

That's if Cheney and Bush don't set the world on fire first.

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Annoymouse's picture

WTCD scooped Buzzflash

Submitted by Annoymouse on Sat, 2008-03-22 23:36.

anyone else call this one earlier?

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casseia's picture

Is it just me...

Submitted by casseia on Sun, 2008-03-23 00:19.

or is that some snotty holiday elitism? Like, Purim is a legitimate religious holiday, how dare you compare it to Halloween? Halloween (though more commercially exploited, for sure -- unless Hallmark has a Purim card section, and they *might*) has its roots in an ancestor worship/beloved dead holiday that is an old European tradition and the tradition behind the Day of the Dead in Mexican culture.

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gretavo's picture

Purim is all about revenge against Iranians (Persians)

Submitted by gretavo on Sun, 2008-03-23 00:36.
See the bold text...  Isn't separation of church and state AWESOME? 

  

Esther - Chapter 9

1. And in the twelfth month-which is the month of Adar-on the thirteenth day thereof, when the king's order and his edict drew near to be put into execution, on the day that the Jews' enemies looked forward to ruling over them, it was reversed,the Jews should rule over their enemies.

2. The Jews assembled in their cities, in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to lay hand on those who sought to harm them, and no one stood up before them, for their fear had fallen upon all the peoples.

3. And all the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and those that conduct the king's affairs elevated the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

4. For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

5. And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and with slaying and destruction, and they did to their enemies as they wished.

6. And in Shushan the capital, the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

7. And Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha,

8. and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha,

9. and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha:

10. The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the adversary of the Jews, they slew, but on the spoil they did not lay their hands.

11. On that day, the number of those slain in Shushan the capital came before the king.

12. And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Shushan the capital the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the king's provinces what have they done! Now what is your petition, and it shall be granted you, and what is your request, and it shall be done."

13. And Esther said, "If it please the king, let tomorrow too be granted to the Jews to do as today's decree, and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows."

14. Now the king ordered that it be done so, and a decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

15. Now the Jews who were in Shushan assembled on the fourteenth day of Adar as well, and they slew in Shushan three hundred men, but upon the spoils they did not lay their hands.

16. And the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces assembled and protected themselves and had rest from their enemies and slew their foes, seventy-five thousand, but upon the spoil they did not lay their hands

17. on the thirteenth of the month of Adar, and they rested on the fourteenth thereof, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

18. And the Jews who were in Shushan assembled on the thirteenth thereof and on the fourteenth thereof, and rested on the fifteenth thereof, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

19. Therefore, the Jewish villagers, who live in open towns, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar [a day of] joy and feasting and a festive day, and of sending portions to one another.

20. And Mordecai inscribed these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

21. to enjoin them to make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day thereof, every year,

22. as the days when the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was reversed for them from grief to joy and from mourning to a festive day-to make them days of feasting and joy, and sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

23. And the Jews took upon themselves what they had commenced to do and what Mordecai had written to them.

24. For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had devised to destroy the Jews, and he cast the pur-that is the lot-to terrify them and destroy them.

25. And when she came before the king, he commanded through letters that his evil device that he had devised against the Jews return upon his own head, and to destroy him and his sons on the gallows.

26. Therefore, they called these days Purim after the name pur; therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they saw concerning this matter, and what happened to them.

27. The Jews ordained and took upon themselves and upon their seed and upon all those who join them, that it is not to be revoked to make these two days according to their script and according to their appointed time, every year.

28. And these days shall be remembered and celebrated throughout every generation, in every family, every province, and every city, and these days of Purim shall not be revoked from amidst the Jews, and their memory shall not cease from their seed.

29. Now, Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote down all [the acts of] power, to confirm the second Purim letter.

30. And he sent letters to all the Jews, to one hundred twenty-seven provinces, the realm of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,

31. to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fasts and their cry.

32. Now Esther's order confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was inscribed in the book.

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gretavo's picture

From our blog to the New York Times

Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2008-07-07 19:25.

Joseph I. Lieberman
Senator from Connecticut

Hey, why not? Mr. Lieberman is certainly experienced at being a running mate — he did it for Al Gore on the Democratic ticket in 2000. Since then, Mr. Lieberman has had a falling out with his party, mainly over the war in Iraq, and now considers himself an independent and as vigorous a supporter of Mr. McCain’s candidacy as any bona fide Republican. Choosing Mr. Lieberman would permit Mr. McCain to press his appeal to moderate voters put off by partisan politics. That said, Mr. Lieberman is also a supporter of abortion rights, and didn’t turn out to be a particularly good candidate for vice president eight years ago.

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/candidates/vp/index.html

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