John Kerry, John Edwards, or Joe Lieberman?

[oberliner]

Which of these three recent Democratic nominees for president/vice president is most disliked at DU these days?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. Obama

[NoOneMan]

2. Holy Joe

[Fumesucker]

3. Joebituary in a landslide

[MelungeonWoman]

4. Jomentum!

[JI7]

5. john kerry has always been most disliked of those 3 on DU , not just these days either

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. John Kerry and John Edwards are just politics as usual careerist - Joe Lieberman is a foreign policy

right-wing Neoconservative ideologue and he is self-righteously smug about it. That would make him considerably more dangerous and more obnoxious.

[PoliticAverse]

7. The Guy that Sarah Palin edged out as McCain's VP choice. n/t

[oberliner]

21. Wasn't that Mitt Romney?

I could've sworn he was who everyone was telling him to take.

[DemocraticWing]

8. It has to be Lieberman

Imagine a world where the first foreign policy voice in President Gore's ear after 9/11 was Joe Lieberman.

[oberliner]

22. Even scarier is who it actually was

Cheney and Rumsfeld were doing a lot more than just whispering.

[Raine]

9. Joe NOmentum nt

[Skittles]

10. Lieberman, hands down

[oberliner]

11. He definitely looks to be the runaway winner

Still hard to believe he and Gore were a ticket together.

[Skittles]

12. that was the very first moment I realized Gore was going to lose

that to me was the defining moment

[oberliner]

13. And yet they didn't actually lose

But that's another story!

[Skittles]

16. I stand corrected

yes INDEED

I remember thinking Lieberman had the personality of a wet towel

[JHB]

33. True, but in the end Joe helped the other team...

COUNTING THE VOTE: THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS; Military Ballots Merit a Review, Lieberman Says
By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA
Published: November 20, 2000


Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Democratic candidate for vice president, said today that Florida election officials should reconsider their rejection of hundreds of military ballots from overseas, even if they might not comply with the law.

Mr. Lieberman's comments, a retreat from the position the Democrats had taken since Friday, came after they were stung by Republican charges that they had made a concerted effort to disenfranchise members of the military. While Republicans painted their opponents as being willing to use any means to manipulate vote totals in the extraordinary, tense and prolonged Florida count, Democrats complained that they were losing a nasty public relations battle for simply insisting on following the law as it has been applied in the past.

''My own point of view, if I was there, I would give the benefit of the doubt to ballots coming in from military personnel, generally,'' Mr. Lieberman said on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' Of the local canvassing boards, he said, ''If they have the capacity, I'd urge them to go back and take another look, because again, Al Gore and I don't want to ever be part of anything that would put an extra burden on the military personnel abroad.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/us/counting-vote-absentee-ballots-military-ballots-merit-review-lieberman-says.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

The Republicans didn't give any such benefit of the doubt to challenging the same sorts of ballots in Democratic-favoring areas.

[pjt7]

14. They are ALL horrible in their own ways

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[B Calm]

15. Joe Lieberman hands down!

[liberal_at_heart]

17. You know the John Edwards and Anthony Weiner situations have me wondering. Would Bill Clinton

still get a free pass from democrats if he had been president today and did what he did? Would he get support from democrats simply to keep republicans from taking power? Would people have demanded he leave office? Or would people simply not care about his personal life if he were a good president? It used to be that democrats would seperate a person's job and personal life. As long as you were a good president people left a person's personal life to their family to deal with. Now we have become morality police just like the republicans. On a personal level what Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and Anthony Weiner did were reprehensible. But does that mean they can't be good public servents?

[oberliner]

18. Did Bill Clinton commit campaign finance fraud?

I think that was more the concern with Edwards.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. "It used to be that democrats would separate a person's job and personal life."

John Edwards crisscrossing the country speaking out against the one percent to the 99% wasn't something TPTB were about to tolerate from a presidential candidate.

[dionysus]

36. yeah, it's too bad he was a phoney, though.

[Scootaloo]

19. Lieberman, hands down

Kerry's made a damn fool of himself and Edwards has done even worse than that, but both of 'em still harbor real progressive ideas and approaches. Scumbag Joe's climbed so far up John McCain's ass that he can taste the senator's lunch.

[LiberalAndProud]

20. LIEberman in a landslide.

[liskddksil]

23. As a John Edwards Democrat,

Joe Lieberman is clearly the bottom of my list.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Same here.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Lieberman, not even close.

True, Edwards made an ass out of himself in his personal family life, but at least he didn't sell out the party.

Kerry, albeit with his flaws, is still respectable in my opinion.

[oberliner]

27. With respect to Edwards

It wasn't just his personal life - what about the use of campaign funds to cover up his indiscretions?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. To me, it still pales in comparision to giving a major address at the GOP convention.

What Edwards did, although inexcusable, happens all the time on a bi-partisan basis. Campaign funds in general are typically giant slush funds for any number of purposes, proper or not.

But you don't usually come across a candidate eight years removed from the VP nomination of one party giving an address for the nominee of the other party.

On a strictly emotional level, that angers me way more than what Edwards did.

[liskddksil]

34. Plus Edwards was found innocent

As unethical as it might have been.

[JHB]

37. That means he might have joined Spiro Agnew in the "disgraced VP club", but...

...life would go on.

Lieberman prominently supported the people who used 9/11 as a springboard to launch their pet project to impose their own blinkered vision of how the Middle East "should" be. (Remember the bit trumpeting their bold vision and action-taking while sneering at the plodding "reality based community"?)

Not much of a contest, and Kerry isn't even in the same city, much less same ballpark.

[eissa]

25. Joe, without a doubt

The other two aren't traitors.

[bigwillq]

26. For me, Lieberman (nt)

[MNBrewer]

28. Lieberman

[Romulox]

32. Lieberman would be a mainstream poster here on DU. So I doubt he's the most hated. nt

[PoliticAverse]

39. 'mainstream poster's here on DU endorsed McCain for president like Lieberman did?...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/world/americas/18iht-lieberman.1.10144352.html

[markiv]

35. Kerry, Lieberman and Edwards, in that order

i never liked Edwards, a 2 faced asshat, whose words were contradicted completely by his short voting record - but he's made himelf irrelevant so he's last

Lieberman, who appeared on Pierce Morgan with WOLFOWITZ pushing for war just a few days ago

and Kerry as first, as the face of this disaster

[dionysus]

38. for me it's Holy Joe.

[rurallib]

40. fuck Lieberman