Somebody PLEASE say something - anything - in Lieberman's favor.

[patricia92243]

He can't possibly win, and he is doing the MOST harm of any of the candidates. Clark, Kerry and Gerhard look like angels next to Lieberman's viciousness. Shame on him.

[trotsky]

1. He would make a better president than George W. Bush.

And I mean that sincerely.

[JI7]

3. agree

.

[Clark4Prez]

5. Yes but so would my dog

And my dog regularly licks itself in public (yes, I Bush used to do that to, before his handlers stopped it).

[Hep]

26. Your dog doesn't meet constitutional requirements for eligibility.

And Lieberman does. That's my only positive thing to say about him.

[papau]

38. Joe has done his best for the average Joe - at least in his mind!

And his voting record is solid.

[wryter2000]

6. Yeah

But my pet corn snake would make a better president than Bush.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Joe is marginally better in terms of women and gay rights

We would still have the bloody war in Iraq with over 10,000 dead and countless wounded.

Joe is to Bush what Agnew was to Nixon.

A political party is either in opposition or in coalition with the government, otherwise it is nothing more than a social club.

[MoonRiver]

13. Yes, and so would my pet rock.

:D That's as positive as I can get about the DINO.

[terrya]

2. He's got a very nice smile. eom

[Bill of Rights]

4. Lieberman

is counted as a Senate Democrat.

[blm]

7. He believes in what he says even when we disagree with him.

And he has a very good record supporting gays, civil rights, the environment and judicial matters.

[brainshrub]

17. I second that! (nt)

[w4rma]

25. Correction: He SOUNDS like he believes in what he says. (n/t)

[BootinUp]

8. He has a nice head of hair?

for his age I mean. :)

[maddezmom]

9. he has a nice looking wife.

[JI7]

18. i like hadassah

she seems like a good person. in fact i like all the wives of the candidates. not sure if kucinich still has the girlfriend i had read about, but she seemed cool also.

[Clark4Prez]

10. When he talks he sounds like ALF n/t

[QC]

12. He is a carbon-based life form.

[efhmc]

14. Why?

[peacetalksforall]

15. Appears to have a beauty for a wife...

enthusiastic and intelligent...

[Turkw]

16. he was involved with the civil rights movement and participated in some of

the marches way back when

[blm]

23. Yes...he was RISKING HIS LIFE for civil rights

and rarely receives credit for it.

[cliss]

19. But everybody can see that, can't they?

You can only blast for so long, until people start to look closely at you...and draw their own conclusions.

Here are the only 2 things I can think of that are in his favor:

1) He's Joe "The Jester". After reading all the hundreds of threads here about all of his antics, he really is a great comedy relief. I've laughed my way down many "Lieberman" threads. Too funny.

2) I've stated that I believe he's on the Rat-publican payroll. I jokingly said that the Ream-publicans asked him to hang in there as long as possibly (even though it's humiliating). The plan is to divert a few votes from the leading candidate. It won't be many; maybe a few thousand, but they've promised to pay him 50 cents for each diverted vote.

[philosophie_en_rose]

20. He's strong on foreign policy.

Before someone throws a brick at me, I want to say that he's not RIGHT about foreign policy.

However, because he's virtually the same as Bush on foreign issues, Bush can't really make the war an issue. Pres. Lieberman would presumably do the same things.

Domestic policy becomes the issue of contention and, despite some DINO qualities, Lieberman really is socially liberal.

Lieberman is a better human being than Bush. He will not sell our country to Halliburton. Is he the best candidate? I don't believe so. But he has good intentions. I don't want him to win the nomination, but if he's the candidate, I'll vote for him.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. He has a nice chin

Sorry. That's all i could come up with

[KittyWampus]

22. He's Human And Loves His Family

I presume.

[Freddie Stubbs]

24. He voted less conservative than John Edwards in 2002

And just as liberal as Kerry that year.

[Padraig18]

27. He has a positive record on civil rights and the environment.

Still, I'm having a VERY difficult time saying anything nice about Joe today... :grr:

[DuctapeFatwa]

28. The Iran earthquake is probably not his fault

[peekaloo]

29. I like his slow, methodical, deliberate manner of speaking.

A nice cure for insomnia. :boring:

[SadEagle]

30. He is a lot more liberal than he sounds.

See for example his vote against the late-term abortion ban, which many of the supposedly more leftist Democrats supported.

[Cronus Protagonist]

31. He'll lose his seat forever after this election

And he'll be hired by Fox as their token "liberal".

"Lick Bush" Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[Benhurst]

32. I've never seen any soup stains on his ties.

That's it. :shrug:

[amber dog democrat]

33. Well he is NOT Bush

That fits in with Anybody But Bush .
and I do mean ANYBODY.

[Lefty48197]

34. Lieberman is Jewish

and his presence on the ticket impassioned so many Jewish voters in Florida that more of Florida's voters went to the polls intending to vote for the Democrats.

[Blitz]

35. I'm just sitting here, waiting for a little consistancy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=60331#60595

[Hep]

39. Alert the post

You know that the refs always call the person who hits back.

[Blitz]

41. I did

I know that the Mods are not clairavoyant (sp?), so I alerted a little while back. Now I'm waiting.

[democratreformed]

40. I can certainly see your point, Blitz n/t

[Brian_Expat]

36. Ummm. . . Errrrr. . . He'll never, ever be President! ;-) n/t

[saltpoint]

37. Lieberman's too conservative --

-- for me, but I'd like to synthesize his temperament and personality and inject it into all supervisors and bosses in the world.

He'd be a lot easier to work for than a few of the bosses I've had.

But I ain't votin' for 'im.

[robbedvoter]

42. Funny, a similar thread against HD was locked. And it was started

in milder terms than this one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=60331&mesg_id=60331
I guess not all rules apply equally to all candidates... (and I am not by any means defending Joe, just fairness here)

[Blitz]

43. To be fair

It was started in EXACTLY THE SAME terms as this one. I should know, I cut and pasted the original post in this thread and put Dean's name where Lieberman's appears in the original post here. This thread has now been open for two hours. That one lasted less than an hour. I alerted on this one when that one was locked ... about 15-20 minutes ago. Still waiting.

[Blitz]

44. Correction

Two and one half hours. Exactly one hour since this post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=60331#60595

[Blitz]

45. Update

Three hours since the original post in this thread.

Over an hour and a half since this post (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=60331#60595 ) locked an identical thread about Dean. Over an hour since an alert was sent on the original post in this thread, pointing out that an identical thread about Dean had been locked and asking for consistency.

[Moderator]

46. Locking.....

6. You may not start a new discussion thread in order to continue a current or recent flame war from another thread. The moderators have the authority to lock threads in order to contain flaming on a particular topic to only one thread at a time.



DU Moderator