How They Pay You Back

5:31 pm EST June 10th, 2008 | News | 10 Comments

The back story on how the Lieberman folks asked Obama for help when Ned Lamont was about to beat them in the primary.

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10 Responses to “How They Pay You Back”

  1. Balakirev says:
    June 10, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    This should be seen in the context of the many Congressional Democrats who caved in to Lieberman’s threats, and supported him despite Lamont’s credentials as the primary-selected candidate. The Clintons, as I recall, did just as Obama did. Which doesn’t make Obama’s conduct any less reprehensible. It just spreads the guilt a little thicker all around, like a sandwich made of peanut butter that’s gone bad.

  2. PTCruiser says:
    June 10, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    C’mon Oliver! If you lay down with dogs, you always get up with fleas. I’m for Senator Obama all the way – time and money – but the only thing that was driving him to support Joe Lieberman was his own ambition. Lieberman is who he has always been. Obama made a deal with the devil when he endorsed Lieberman. Sometimes the devil keeps his word and sometimes he doesn’t. Obama and his supporters can’t piss and moan about it now.

    If Obama is about what he seems to want all of us to think he is about then he would have done more to support the Democratic Senate nominee in Connecticut. He didn’t and Lieberman is still alive. I’m still supporting Obama but he does not walk on water.

  3. jerry says:
    June 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    I suspect PTCruiser is correct, but my real question is for Balakirev:

    “like a sandwich made of peanut butter that’s gone bad.”

    I have never ever seen peanut butter go bad, and I’m afraid I’ve been eating bad peanut butter all this time. Can you clarify? How can I tell when peanut butter has gone bad?

  4. Squid Shark says:
    June 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    That politics. Hagel will probably be endorsing Obama at some point soon, McCain campaigned like hell for him.

    Respectfully,
    The Squid

  5. Vanessa says:
    June 10, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    I once had bad peanut butter. It developed a black crunchy coal-like substance. Yuck.

    I gotta agree with PTCruiser. Obama should’ve known better than to support Lierberman. Also yuck.

  6. daniel rotter says:
    June 10, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    “Hagel will probably be endorsing Obama at some point soon,…”

    Maybe, but I doubt he will be the attack dog for Obama the way that Lieberman is being for McCain. Hagel’s pro-Obama activities will probably more of a defenseive nature, in other words, defending Obama against the McCain camp’s criticisms of the latter.

  7. jerry says:
    June 10, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    I once had bad peanut butter. It developed a black crunchy coal-like substance. Yuck.

    Eewwww. I think I maybe sorry I asked.

  8. Balakirev says:
    June 10, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Yes, that’s about right. :)

    But really, Obama shouldn’t have kowtowed to a pit viper. Because however much he swears he’ll be a bad enemy, a pit viper, you know, is at its worst when you clasp it to your heart.

    And that’s exactly what the Democratic Party did to Lieberman.

  9. Parthenon says:
    June 11, 2008 at 1:18 am

    Not much to add to this, except that I concur with the general spirit. To paraphrase former NFL coach Dennis Green, Lieberman is who they thought he was, and they let him off the hook. Or the Stone film ‘Natural Born Killers-’ they knew he was a snake.

    This seems relevant to me only as irony, though. Lieberman of course has the right (and, one could argue, the responsibility) to back the candidate he believes is best for the job, not the one who’s done him favors.

  10. somejackass says:
    June 11, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Hey, uh, Oliver. This um, doesn’t look good for Obama. Sure Lieberman betrayed him, but in ’06 every good little democrat was boosting Lamont. Are you an idiot or a SECRET REPUBLICAN?!