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Lieberman doing now as far as advancement of civil rights (he voted FOR BOTH Patriot Acts, and would do it again without hesitation, which alone makes him persona non grata in my book), the protection of the environment, and especially expanding opportunities for the working poor and the middle class? NOTHING. That's right, NOT A DAMN THING.
He'd rather rail against a stupid fucking video game, and rant like a Victorian against any sex anywhere in any media, than try to do something about outsourcing, the horrendous deficit (as opposed to the surplus left by the last administration), the loss of millions of jobs that aren't coming back, the erosion of the middle class, the ever-tightening noose around the working class and poor, corporate offshoring, corporate welfare and abuse, the environment, the sorry state of the economy, the repuke assault on public education (his response is to push for even MORE vouchers, with NO OTHER SOLUTIONS).
He is totally out of touch with the needs and concerns of the average American. We don't need a self-righteous morality nanny whose sole thing is "scolding". And if he's so damn gung-ho on a pre-emptive invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and doesn't give a damn about the 10,000 civilian deaths and the 500 military deaths so far who've paid for Shrub's lies with their lives, then let him send HIS kids over there, and let him go over there.
He rails about fake violence in video games, but is all gung-ho about REAL violence and blood and gore of the war he's so orgasmic over. He was gung-ho about Vietnam, too, and I never heard anything at all about him going over there himself, guess he had a helluva reason for not wanting to serve in a war he was so gung-ho for other men (read poor and minority, unable to afford a fancy Yale deferment) to bleed, suffer, and die for.
And there's nothing at all wrong with being religious, in fact, I'm a Christian myself. but I don't go around demanding that public policy mirror my beliefs, forcing everyone else to adhere to them, either. The problem comes in SHOVING IT DOWN EVERYONE ELSE'S THROATS like he's always trying to do. When he says things like "the constitution says freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion" (agreeing with Raygun, of all people!), and "sooner or later we're all going to have to recognize that we all come from the same awesome god (ever hear of agnostics, atheists, hindus, muslims, buddhists, etc., etc.,?) and cozies up to the Bushistas to pass that ridiculous faith-based initiative (which was basically for Christianity and Judaism, not any other religion), THAT'S the problem, not his being religious in and of itself.
When he cozies up to Shrub in many other areas, refusing to condemn him as the real enemy and chooses instead to never pass up an opportunity to bash and spread lies about other Dems (and never mind that those Dems actually give a damn about most Americans, unlike Lieberman), THAT'S the problem. So, I'm sorry, I don't give a damn what he's done in the past (and frankly, I don't think he was all that great in those areas anyway), it's the way he is now that matters. He refuses to see what the Bushistas are doing to this country and how they're ruining and trashing everything that we stand for and that has made us great, refuses to condemn it and work against it.
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