Comments on: Lamont over Lieberman: A 1968 moment http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:40:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Why Obama let Lieberman go http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/#comment-4934 Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Why Obama let Lieberman go Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:32:17 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1094#comment-4934 [...] go all vindictive on Joe Lieberman and boot him from his committee chairmanship. I have no love for Lieberman and detest his choice to stump for the Republicans this year. But I think I understand what Barack [...] [...] go all vindictive on Joe Lieberman and boot him from his committee chairmanship. I have no love for Lieberman and detest his choice to stump for the Republicans this year. But I think I understand what Barack [...]

]]> By: Scott Rosenberg http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/#comment-143 Scott Rosenberg Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:18:03 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1094#comment-143 1968 started with a rebellion against Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War in New Hampshire. That it ended with defeat had more to do with the assassination of the party's best candidate and George Wallace's third-party run than with the repudiation of the Vietnam policy, without which the Democrats would have lost far worse. As for Lieberman, the problem with him was never that he's a "centrist", it's that he chose to support a war that the voters now overwhelmingly reject, and that he had the bad judgment to tell other members of his party that they should shut up and support the commander in chief rather than provide real opposition to a misbegotten war. I think centrists are still welcome in the Democratic party; what Connecticut Democrats rejected was Lieberman's inflexible support of the war and his tone of authoritarianism. 1968 started with a rebellion against Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War in New Hampshire. That it ended with defeat had more to do with the assassination of the party’s best candidate and George Wallace’s third-party run than with the repudiation of the Vietnam policy, without which the Democrats would have lost far worse.

As for Lieberman, the problem with him was never that he’s a “centrist”, it’s that he chose to support a war that the voters now overwhelmingly reject, and that he had the bad judgment to tell other members of his party that they should shut up and support the commander in chief rather than provide real opposition to a misbegotten war. I think centrists are still welcome in the Democratic party; what Connecticut Democrats rejected was Lieberman’s inflexible support of the war and his tone of authoritarianism.

]]> By: AN http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/#comment-142 AN Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:07:28 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1094#comment-142 A "1968 moment"? So the Democrats are willing to hand more elections to Republicans by making it clear that centrists are no longer welcome? Uh... hooray? A “1968 moment”? So the Democrats are willing to hand more elections to Republicans by making it clear that centrists are no longer welcome?

Uh… hooray?

]]> By: Patrick Corcoran http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/#comment-141 Patrick Corcoran Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:34:32 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1094#comment-141 Thank God. Lieberman is a limp yes-man, and I finger his flaccid debate against Cheney in 2000 as a watershed moment in the Gore-Lieberman ticket's decline. Adios. Thank God. Lieberman is a limp yes-man, and I finger his flaccid debate against Cheney in 2000 as a watershed moment in the Gore-Lieberman ticket’s decline.

Adios.

]]> By: Recovering Addict http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/08/1968-moment/#comment-140 Recovering Addict Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:04:28 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1094#comment-140 Arrrrggghhh... politics! I just can't understand any bit of it. Only know that it is saddening to see the things happening in Lebanon. What the hell is happening to the world!! Arrrrggghhh… politics! I just can’t understand any bit of it. Only know that it is saddening to see the things happening in Lebanon. What the hell is happening to the world!!

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