The Demublican

Bottom line, Joe Lieberman is looking out for the interest of Israel. Period! And as such he must have influence in both parties to ensure the issues that affect Israel are addressed. This political maneuver is well documented in the New Testament Bible. This is how the Jews leadership was able to send Jesus to the Cross. The Jewish leadership had a foot in Roman politics as well as in the Jewish politics and was adept at manipulating them both under the auspices of maintaining order and bipartisanship. Joe Lieberman is doing the same.

What Joe Lieberman is doing is tantamount to treason. America expects their elected officials to look out for the interest of the USA not some other country even if they are an Allie

Joe Lieberman is not a democrat or a republican. He is not even a patriot. He qualifies to be a member of the Likud party in Isreal. He gets up every day thinking..."what's best for Isreal?" Not everything that is good for Isreal is good for the U.S. Our interests are not always the same, but, Joe Lieberman will sacrifice what is good for us and do what is good for Isreal. His actions border on treason!

It is clear that one of the main themes of the comments is Mr. Lieberman's support of Israel. Yet there is not a single insight about this issue in the article. Was Mr. Bartholet amazingly ignorant of this issue? Was he afraid to raise the issue? Or was there an agreeement prior to the interview not to raise the issue? Failure to raise this issue in the interview does a disservice to the readers as well as not allowing Mr. Liberman the opportunity to face the issue head on.

Such failure does not speak well of the author of the article nor of the editors of Newsweek who ran the article without this essential element of Mr. Lieberman's persona. That is why after 40 some years, I decided not to renew my Newsweek subscription.

All the things that he promised (in his usual crooked way) during his election in CN was just to win the election. He went opposite direction on most of those promises. This man speaks with forked - tongue. Beware.

ps. and incidentally you really do look like a weasel.

I think Lieberman is a political prostitute of the lowest order. He proved this when he ran for V.P. with Gore but insisted on keeping his safety net (he simultaneously ran for re-election to the senate). What is that... insurance? YOU WERE CAMPAIGNING TO BECOME LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, NOT PLAYING BLACKJACK AT FOXWOODS YOU SELF-INTERESTED WEASEL!!! But imagine if he had become V.P. Who's more self-interested, him or Cheney?

I see him as a political whore of the lowest order. That became so evident when he ran with Gore for V.P. but insisted on keeping his safety net (he stayed on the ballot in the Conn. Senate race). I saw that as particularly slimy. Nothing this guy does would surprise me. Could you imagine if he were the V.P.? Who's more self-interested, him or Cheney?

Lieberman is entitled to support who he wants. I am entitled to think he is a man who sees himself as principled, but who is basically untrustworthy. I would not buy a car from him, nor let him date my daughter.

After being beaten in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary election, Lieberman
received over $20 million from individual contributors who were not Connecticut
residents. These funds enabled him to retain his Senate seat.

This $20 million did not come from Wisconsin diary farmers or Detroit autoworkers. It came from proponents of the State of Israel throughout the U.S. who did not want to lose Israel's principal representative in the U.S. Senate or any of the billions in assistance the U.S. gives to that tiny county each year.

Once reelected, Lieberman's main objective has been to try to help AIPAC and
Israel achieve their goal of having their proxy, the United State of American, bomb Iran.
Thanks to the recent release of the principle findings from the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, this has not yet occurred.

Obviously, Lieberman now thinks that his best hope for achieving this goal is to help get Sen. McCain elected as President. This desire on his part is reflective of the low regard he has for the American voter. It won't happen.

Running as a Dem. V.P. maybe he was the real reason they lost the election. The voters saw him for what he really is.

Jumping Joe goes the way that's best for him. Turned ito a real skag.

I feel very strongly that politicians are not elected to follow their own (so-called) consciences, but to represent the beliefs and ideals of their constituents. Sen. Lieberman chose to flout the antiwar sentiments of his constituency. That cost him the Democratic nomination. If he intends to back Sen. McCain in the primary season, and in the general election, then he should indeed abandon his pretense that he is concerned about partisanship and is trying to fight partisanship by crossing the aisle--because I sincerely doubt that McCain will be anything except a bitterly partisan candidate. He proved that to me when he laughed at the woman in South Carolina who referred to Sen. Clinton by an inexcusable epithet instead of telling her off for her foul manners. Lieberman is an apostate and an opportunist, pure and simple. After all, when he originally announced his endorsement of Sen. McCain, he said a mouthful: "None of the Democrats asked me." Why would they bother? They already know him for what he is.

As independents, we are deeply appreciative that Senator Joe Lieberman places the well-being of our Nation uppermost in his thoughts and actions. It is unfortunate that some of those who post here would rather see the destruction of our country in order to spite and demean this man of integrity.

Joe Lieberman is only interested in Joe Lieberman. That's not bipartisanship, it's political onanism.