Joe Lieberman: Self-Loathing Loser

It seems that Joe Lieberman got on a conference call today, and though he admitted he hadn’t actually HEARD the speech Barack Obama gave to AIPAC, proceeded to whine on and on about how he doesn’t like Obama’s foreign policy with regards to Israel. I would ask if Joe Lieberman should really be able to make comments on someone else’s foreign policy, since he’s giving the keynote address at John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel sausage party. Remember, John Hagee believes that Adolf Hitler was simply fulfilling God’s will when he massacred over 6,000,000 Jews. Remember, Joe Lieberman is a Jew married to the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Huffington Post reports:

“I appreciate many of the very good intentions to Israel and Israeli security that Senator Obama express 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 left 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.”

The remarks fit into a traditional GOP rallying cry, that the Democrats have a blame-America-first mentality. But there are outstanding factors that could muddle Lieberman’s message. For starters, most objective metrics indicate that Iran has, in fact, been strengthened by America’s involvement in Iraq. The Persian nation, after all, has increasingly meddled in Iraqi affairs.

But apparently Joe Lieberman refuses to acknowledge this, because his bestest friends John McCain and Lindsey Graham love the Iraq war so much, and they all are delusional in their belief that the “surge” somehow solved everything, even though it’s currently falling apart, didn’t meet its stated objectives, and, oh yeah, the fact that the violence dropped was actually kind of a coincidence, and had more to do with the Sunni Awakening than it did the “surge.” (Also, Lindsey Graham won’t give Joe Lieberman head anymore if he says mean things about the war. Allegedly!)

Could Lieberman’s childish refusal to understand facts mask something deeper? Huffington Post continues:

But also, McCain, despite tough rhetoric on Iran, has several advisers with deep connections to the country; perhaps the most embarrassing of which is Charlie Black, the campaign’s chief strategist. Before leaving his perch as a D.C. lobbyist, Black represented a Chinese oil company that did business with the Iranian government. He and his firm also represented Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who helped churn up support for the war in the United States and has subsequently been accused of selling U.S. secrets to Iran.

HMMMMMM! Very interesting! Nice company McCain, Lieberman, and Graham keep! I’ve said it before, and I will say it repeatedly, because his record bears this out: McCain does not support the troops, he supports the military-industrial complex.

Luckily, future President Obama isn’t a pansy like Joe Lieberman, and he roughed Joe Lieberman up on the Senate floor later on this afternoon. From Roll Call:

Furthermore, during a Senate vote Wednesday, Obama dragged Lieberman by the hand to a far corner of the Senate chamber and engaged in what appeared to reporters in the gallery as an intense, three-minute conversation.

While it was unclear what the two were discussing, the body language suggested that Obama was trying to convince Lieberman of something and his stance appeared slightly intimidating.

Using forceful, but not angry, hand gestures, Obama literally backed up Lieberman against the wall, leaned in very close at times, and appeared to be trying to dominate the conversation, as the two talked over each other in a few instances.

Still, Obama and Lieberman seemed to be trying to keep the back-and-forth congenial as they both patted each other on the back during and after the exchange.

Afterwards, Obama smiled and pointed up at reporters peering over the edge of the press gallery for a better glimpse of their interaction.

Obama loyalists were quick to express their frustration with Lieberman’s decision and warned that if he continues to take a lead role in attacking Obama it could complicate his professional relationship with the Caucus.

Here’s the plan, folks. Lieberman is a fucking joke, so on top of electing Barack Obama, we should all focus our efforts on electing a larger Senate Democratic majority this year. LOTS of Republicans are up for re-election, and LOTS of them are extremely vulnerable. People want the nutwads OUT. I’ll post a list of the Senators up for re-election soon. If we have a large majority, the Democratic caucus can kick Traitor Joe Lieberman to the curb, and let him be the self-hating Republican he always wanted. Then in four years, Connecticut can vote him out for good.

Deal?