Jeffrey Feldman
Posted November 6, 2008 | 06:39 PM (EST)
... For two years, the Republican Party falsely accused Barack Obama of hastening the genocide of the Jewish people--while Sen. Joe Lieberman uttered not one word of rebuke. Even worse, Lieberman gave this sick Republican Party strategy his seal of approval by campaigning for John McCain, in the course of which he repeatedly echoed the lie that Barack Obama was somehow dangerous to Israel. I watched in horror as the Jewish community where I was raised, and where my family still lives, was riddled with fear and anxiety as a result of the sadistic GOP propaganda pumped into Jewish newspapers during the Presidential election.
But beyond unprecedented fear in America's Jewish community, whose sense of security was manipulated by these smears, the result of this Lieberman-endorsed propaganda was a sudden burst of hard-right nationalism from the Republican Party political base, including violent rhetoric the likes of which this country has never witnessed in a Presidential campaign.
Lieberman's disgusting abuse of Holocaust memory and his betrayal of the trust of the American Jewish community--all in the name of political gain--will stand as an historic blight on the history of the U.S. Senate. Nothing can change that. But, in light of what he did, if Harry Reid allows Lieberman to continue to hold authority over other Democrats in the Senate, by retaining his committee chairmanships, then the shame of Lieberman's immoral behavior in the 2008 election will surely stain the Democratic Party ...
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