Lieberputz plays the commie pinko fag card, channels McCarthy.

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/14/lieberman-its-a-good-question-to-ask-if-obama-is-a-marxist/

In his New York Times column today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol claimed that Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) now-infamous “bitter” remarks sound like Karl Marx’s “famous statement about religion.” On the Brian and the Judge radio show today, Fox News’ senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano asked Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) if Obama is “a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case?”

“I must say that’s a good question,” replied Lieberman, before stepping back to say that he would “hesitate to say he’s a Marxist”:

NAPITALIANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?

LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he’s obviously very smart and he’s a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t…I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.

(end snip)

What, racism didn't work, so they try this? This is KKKarl at his best. No foundation in truth, but let's throw it out there and see if it will stick.

[spanone]

1. fuck, karl rove is to the left of schmuck joe

[Larkspur]

2. This is the Right Wing elitists, called economic royalists by FDR, trying to accuse Obama of

igniting class warfare.

[nadinbrzezinski]

I've known REAL MARXISTS and Obama ain't one of them

they are counting on the ignorance of the Murican people

MY GOD HE IS A COMMIE, run for the hills, protect the women and children!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I've known REAL MARXISTS and Obama ain't one of them

they are counting on the ignorance of the Murican people

MY GOD HE IS A COMMIE, run for the hills, protect the women and children!

[LeftishBrit]

4. Obama is far left???

He certainly wouldn't be considered so in Britain or most countries in Europe!

Blimey.

[nashville_brook]

5. if O's comments were anything like Marx's comment on religion, it STILL WOULDN'T make him a marxist.

[glowing]

6. What? Lieberman was Obama's mentor...

[hulklogan]

7. Was it necessary to use the anti-gay F word here?

You could have made the same point without saying "fag" :mad:

[deminks]

10. It was phrase from the sixties. The entire phrase was used by

Nixon and his cronies over and over and over again. It is part of American history. I was called this so many times then I cannot count. It was a favorite phrase of Nixon's vice president, Spiro T. Agnew.


This term in and of itself became a slur during the Cold War. Also "pinko commie" or "Commie Pinko Fag", popularized during the Vietnam war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ed_Poor/Epithets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinko

[hulklogan]

11. And the N word was a popular phrase at one point too,

that doesn't mean it is necessary to use in 2008.

Please have some tact.

[Chovexani]

12. Yes, we know.

There is no reason to be perpetuating slurs coined by Spiro Agnew in 2008 on a board ostensibly for Democrats.

[hulklogan]

17. The straights on DU are getting more pathetic by the day.

I guess it's okay to say fag around here now, as long as you can claim you're quoting Spiro Agnew.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[L. Coyote]

8. I guess if you knew Karl Marx, .. LOL "far to the left of me" = an endorsement!!

AND< "far to the left of me" is a huge relief to hear! :rofl:

[and-justice-for-all]

9. What the fuck ever LIEberman....

Obama is a very "in touch with mainstream America candidate". LIEverman is a snake and I can not stand that bastard. Those fuckers make me want to vomit.

[spanone]

13. billy boy kristol is running scared....he knows his time is up...

[Kitty Herder]

14. Lieberman is making an ass of himself. nt

[leftyclimber]

15. Wow -- I'm in a position I never thought I'd be in!

I can say this:

Hooray! I live in West Virginia and not Connecticut!

:evilgrin:

[UTUSN]

16. Seriesly!1 Joementum is a classic Stockholm Syndrome case!1 n/t