The Agenda Behind Lieberman's Agenda

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Take out the trash. Plunge the toilet. Sweep the floor. Run back to the store — again.
We husbands have a name for these commands.
We call it the “Honey-do” list (as in, “honey, do this; honey, do that”).

During the holidays — whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Festivus — the list only grows to include picking up a bottle of wine for the neighbors, sending flowers to long-lost aunts and last-minute stocking stuffers for the kids.

When you are a U.S. senator — presumably with a personal assistant, or two or nine — your “Honey-Do” list may read a little different from that of the common folk you are elected to, in theory, represent.

Take, for example, Sen. Joe Lieberman — the alleged “Independent” from Connecticut — and his most recent successful stonewalling of progress toward what might have actually been a meaningful health care bill — free of a little less lobbyist DNA — in the U.S. Senate.

By doing so, it is a safe bet that he was merely sweeping the front porch and painting the smudge on the ceiling at the behest of his wife, Hadassah.

It is said that behind every great man is a great woman, and this woman is lurking in the shadows behind the man who was cheated out of the vice presidency (where, ironically, he could have done less harm).
In this case, greatness may be a mirage.
In this case, behind the man with an agenda burgeoning with tunnel vision may have been a woman with an even larger agenda.

Born in a post-World War II refugee camp in 1948, Hadassah is the daughter of Holocaust survivors (including a father who was a rabbi).
Her family eventually settled in New England, and she said her parents gave her “a sense of gratitude and purpose in life.”
On paper, she has dedicated her life to working on health issues, particularly involving women and the elderly, and community service.

All good stuff.
You go, girl.

But could this former drama major from Boston University be playing a part? Could her “sense of purpose in life” have been clouded by feeling “gratitude” toward those who have been signing her paychecks and putting challah bread on her table while her husband ekes out a meager existence — albeit by stuffy New England standards — as a public servant?

Sit down for this. Here comes the bad stuff...
OK, but here’s a warning: Please make sure your have completely digested your holiday meals.

I’m about to get all Michael Moore on you.
We’re talking about a top-five public relations firm — in the world, not just in the U.S.

In and of itself, so what, right? With 71 offices in 40 countries, they employ a lot of people (albeit not as many Americans as we would like to see during these hard times).

H&K seems to have done its share of high-stakes dirty work for clients, all the while putting the hearts and minds of the free world in sleeper hold.
Already with a nasty blemish for representing the tobacco industry from 1953 to 1968, and being behind the infamous “A Frank Statement” ad campaign that tried to downplay links between smoking and cancer, H&K — owned by the WPP Group — has boasted the likes of Enron Corporation and Wal-Mart as clients.
With Kuwait signing checks, it helped peddle the Persian Gulf War with the shameful “Nurse Nayirah” ruse.
In a since-downplayed sham with dire consequences, a woman later found to be a member of Kuwait’s royal family, feigned being a nurse and conjured a tall tale about Iraqi soldiers murdering premature infants. President George H.W. Bush, who had a good chum named Craig Fuller working for H&K at the time, used this fable to his benefit in the run-up to Operation Desert Storm.

H&K also represents Coppertone, and launched a campaign allegedly exaggerating the threat of skin cancer to boost sales.
We can’t blame the Liebermans for all of H&K’s transgressions, but their character and motives need to be called into question in Sen. Lieberman’s all-out blitz to squash the public option (and keep the health insurance “industry” healthy).

Considering who and what this firm has done its spin-doctoring for, a daughter of Holocaust survivors — let alone a rabbi — should be ashamed of herself for letting her hands ever come in contact with their blood money.
And it would seem that the “I” for Independent — the one that her husband, Sen. Lieberman, wears as proudly as a one-time 90-pound weakling who found steroids does a varsity letter from the football team — exists in name only.

Guilt by association is as real, and omnipresent, as a “Honey-Do” list.

Take out the trash. Plunge the toilet.
We’ll leave that up to the voters of Connecticut.



http://timesherald.com/articles/2009/12/27/opinion/columnists/doc4b36cb214e9ba896980413.txt

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1. MONEY.

KILL MOSLEMS.

MORE MONEY.

Holy Joe's Agenda, in a nutshell.

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2. Kick