Doesn't Lieberman

[malaise]

have dual citizenship?

[kentuck]

1. He also has financial conflicts with Donald Trump.

He works for a law firm that has represented Donald Trump.

[malaise]

3. Oh My

This is a mess

[geek tragedy]

2. no, American only.

But he works for Trump's private law firm.

[leftynyc]

4. No - the disgusting cons

say that about all the Jewish members of congress. And let's remember, he was OUR VP candidate.

[geek tragedy]

11. back when Donald Trump was also a Democrat, Traitor Joe is no longer one of us nt

[Stand and Fight]

17. Sigh... Have you forgotten he endorsed McCain over Obama and left the Party?

[leftynyc]

18. No - I haven't forgotten anything

What does that have to do with him not being a dual citizen?

[Stand and Fight]

20. I said nothing about him not being a dual citizen...

I specifically responded to your words: "...let's remember, he was OUR VP candidate."

[leftynyc]

21. What I obviously meant

was Democrats didn't start using right wing memes against Jews until they have the nerve to not agree with us as Democrats. It's fucking nauseating.

[JI7]

25. it's not just the right that accuses jewish people of having dual citizenship

[leftynyc]

27. THAT has become

glaringly apparent. It's nauseating.

[JHB]

32. Oh, I rember his being VP candidate. Do YOU remember what he did during the recount?

When he committed e Gore campaign to NOT contest absentee ballots coming from military bases even when they were clearly disqualified (e.g., postmarked after Election Day)? While the Bush people contested anything and everything they could -- and plenty they couldn't just to gum up the works.

And how, eight years later, he endorsed McCain/Palin?

Let's remember those parts too, since they're more up to date.

[leftynyc]

33. And so THAT

all of a sudden makes it okay for Democrats to question his loyalty to this country? Keep digging, I'm getting quite the education from this thread.

[JHB]

34. Great, but be sure to include the math...

Just how many posts in this thread support the "dual citizenship" crap, vs how many are only pointing out Joe's track record as an opportunist and a willingness to bend a supposedly impartial process where he sees personal advantage?

I think Malaise should delete the OP or at very least edit it with a mea culpa if he didn't know the question itself is a smear.

However, you're the one who brought up Joe's VP run, and that's the part I was responding to. I don't question his loyalty, I do strongly question his integrity.

But if he takes a position in the Trump administration, questioning his loyalty is as fair game as it is for the rest of the cast of The Kremlin Don Show.

[leftynyc]

36. Now if only the OP

had anything to do with his integrity and NOT his loyalty, you'd have a point. MY point was that Democrats didn't start questioning his loyalty until he strayed from liberal Orthodoxy. So lovely to see the disgusting dual loyalty libel here on a board I've been part of for so many years. Really warms my fucking heart.

[tazkcmo]

5. I don't know.

I know he's part cartoon character and I do know he's no Democrat at this point in spite of being called a main stream Democrat. He's a Trump lawyer.

[jberryhill]

6. Please don't

First off, there is no recognition in the US of "dual citizenship". You are a citizen of the US or you are not. If some other country wants to recognize you as a citizen, that's up to the other country.

Many persons with an Irish grandfather are eligible, and receive Irish citizenship. About the only advantage is that they get to use the short immigration line when they visit Ireland.

This is a common anti-semitic smear used against Jews in politics, and has no bearing on anything.

[oberliner]

7. Disgusting post

Delete it immediately.

[leftynyc]

19. I wish

I were more surprised it got posted here.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. What would that have to do with anything?

I'm more concerned that he's affiliated with a law firm that represents Trump businesses.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Yeah, the Drumpf law firm thing is yuuuge.

[still_one]

10. No. That is the garbage that has been falsely spread by certain people who have an

anti-Israeli, and by proxy, anti-Jewish leanings.

Diane Rehm did the same thing to Bernie Sanders by stating he had dual citizenship with Israel. That was not true, and Rehm even repeated her assertion of the senator's dual citizenship as a fact.

Some on the far left and the far right falsely associate anyone who happens to be Jewish as having dual citizenship.

The reason Lieberman should not be FBI director is quite simple thought. He isn't qualified.

This post states it much more eloquently:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029084172

[malaise]

13. Thanks - I read that here years ago

Agree with you - not qualified and involved with the Con's business

[still_one]

14. I know malaise, it comes and goes, and people get confused

[NCTraveler]

12. What other country recognizes him as a citizen?

He ran as a VP on the ticket with Gore.

[malaise]

15. I remember that

I also remember a discussion about his nationality but posters know more than me on this one

[HipChick]

16. Does Nationality comes into play

if you are accessing or need to be accessing classified information..

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Good Grief.

Come on.

[JI7]

23. ugh

[JI7]

24. you should delete this

[ATL Ebony]

26. Why? Can't we ask questions on DU?

[oberliner]

28. What if someone made a post on DU asking if Obama is secretly a Muslim?

Just a question, right?

[ATL Ebony]

29. It is, but that wasn't his question -- it was an honest one which answered OP's concerns

Thanks for your response.

[oberliner]

30. Your post said: "Can't we ask questions on DU?"

My response was meant to indicate that there are some questions that are offensive, such as ones that reference obvious anti-Obama BS or ones that reference obvious antisemitic lies.

[ATL Ebony]

31. That cleared things up. Again, thanks for your response.

[JHB]

35. I gotta join the "delete this" chorus, malaise...

...or at least edit the OP because that particular question is the "go to" question for antisemites. It doesn't belong here.

Lieberman makes it easy enough to question his integrity. Don't muddy it by stirring this crap into the water.