Joebituary

[windansea]

Joe No! It's all Joever now

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Here's Joe Lieberman on TV, quitting the race.



I have such fond memories of Lieberman's campaign. Actually, it was never the Lieberman campaign. It was the Joe campaign. The Web site was www.joe2004.com. The campaign vehicle was the Joemobile. The blog was www.blogforjoe.com. Why the Joe theme? To identify with the average Joe, I suppose. And maybe because the folks at the Lieberman campaign thought the name Lieberman sounded, well, a bit too Joeish.

Joe was the heir apparent, Al Gore's right-hand man. A bit too right-hand, as it turned out. He started out the race with a presumptive seniority that might have been called, in the parlance of his campaign, PrimoJoeniture. But on the stump, voters found him Joematose. He had trouble rustling up Joenations. Antiwar Democrats in Iowa found his support of the Iraq war Joefensive. He went into a Joesdive. He was Joewhere.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2094759/

[BootinUp]

1. politics is just a mean sport!

Let him alone Saletan! Show a little respect.

[windansea]

2. who is Saletan for anyway??

seems like he rips on everyone

[BootinUp]

3. I saw him on CSPAN

he is a New democrat, you know DLC, he was in favor of the war, in favor of moderate fiscal policy, etc.

His style is definitely strong ridicule. For instance on the CSPAN show he showed a book about the 2004 candidates he wrote. In it he had picures of each of the candidates and a funny caption below.

I remember Bob Grahams:



-------------------------

Bob Graham------------------------------------Bob Graham
calm serious discussion-------------------------highly animated



:)

[windansea]

5. sounds like a Joe kinda guy

:shrug:

[Julien Sorel]

6. He's a nasty little jackass who hides behind his column to compensate

for some adequacy issues, from what I've been able to tell. He's nominally on the left, but I find him every bit as objectionable as the right wing nutjobs, because everything he does is a cheap shot. This piece on Lieberman is a perfect example of it.

[salin]

7. It is chock full of cheap shots

and I am sad to admit... I snickered at some.

[Terwilliger]

4. LOL

Joebituary!