I came across this article on Joe Lieberman written by a admirer , actually on a concervative news site I get, Newsmax, highly recommend it, very straight and factual, and conservative leaning. {surprise. You would be surprised by the sites I subscibe to
} and it sums up what kind of Senator he was for 24 years and why the country will miss him.
Naturally those from the right may think that any liberal Senators are a waste of a good Senate seat, however, for those who know and accept that we are going to have more then one party represented in the Senate, and it is best to have good ones from that side and Joe Lieberman was just that .
The article sums up how I feel toward the Senator and is worded much better then I could express my feeling so I am posting it here.
I too was not always in agreement with the man, but thought as long as he voted 85% of the time my ideas I was ahead of the game and figured after 24 years there, Senate, he just might know a bit more then I , on say the 15 % of the issues and topics he didn't agree with me on , so those he would also get right.... most times.
The good news with his announced retirement in 2012 is he will be there for the next two important years, unemcumbered with party labels, a non candidate, and if he is able to bridge some of these differences we have, so we actually accomplish some good things, and there are so few able to cross the aisle like he can, then he will, in my opinion go out in style and done good right up to the last.
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"Breaking from Newsmax.com
Sen. Lieberman, You Will Be Missed
By Lanny Davis
In 1964 I read your editorials, written as chairman of the Yale Daily News from Mississippi, where you were a nice Jewish boy from Stamford, Conn., risking your comfortable life (and indeed, perhaps your very life itself) in the great moral cause of our generation: ending segregation and winning civil rights for all black Americans.
In 1966, just two years out of college and still in Yale Law School, you ran for the New Haven Board of Aldermen. Now I was chairman of the Yale News. The leading Republican columnist on the editorial page, Victor H. Ashe, walked into my office and handed me his column for the next day — calling on you to take yourself out of the race because you could not serve since you weren’t a legal resident of New Haven long enough to qualify.
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“You can’t write that,” I told Victor. “You are taking down my best friend on our editorial page.”
I called Joe and told him the situation. “No way — I’m not running the column,” I told Joe.
“Oh yes you are,” Joe said. “Victor is right — I just checked it out. And you’re the chairman of the oldest and best college daily newspaper in America — act like it.”
In 1970, I was in the bathroom with a towel over my ears. In the living room, surrounded by my parents and friends, there you were — the sandek at the bris — holding my 8-day-old son Seth for the 3,000-year-old Jewish ceremony while the rabbi made the magic cut. I awarded you the title of godfather for doing me (and Seth) that great favor.
In 2000, you stood at the podium as the vice presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, the first Jew to be so honored, and I sat next to your mother, both of us crying, as you began your acceptance speech, in genuine wonder and awe: “Is this a great country, or what?”
In 2006, you lost a Democratic primary in Connecticut because your liberal base wouldn’t forgive you because you genuinely believed a democratic Iraq without Saddam Hussein was worth going to war over. I disagreed with you on that position. But I also knew that you were and always would be a progressive Democrat — that you had voted over 90 percent of the time with your fellow Democratic senators.
On primary night, when you had lost, I stood heartbroken in your hotel suite in Hartford, Conn. My son and your godson, Seth, now 36 years since the magic cut, arrived.
“So sorry, Godfather,” Seth said.
“This is the business we are in,” you responded, in a Marlon Brando voice that, at a moment of sadness throughout the crowded room, brought the house down.
But you didn’t quit. You won as an Independent Democrat — a label that best exemplified your life in politics.
And then in 2011, you were the crucial progressive leader in the U.S. Senate who ended, once and for all, “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Without you, DADT would probably still be with us.
There is something especially sad that you, an important symbol of decency in politics, should pick this week to announce your retirement — the week after the murderous violence in Tucson, Ariz., left so many people in America frightened of the atmosphere of violence and polarization that has become the hallmark of our politics in too many places.
You will be missed, Sen. Lieberman — just at the time where the role of a “bridge-builder” between Democrats and Republicans, between liberals and conservatives, is needed more than ever.
You showed it is possible to be a genuine liberal Democrat on the major issues — but still able to work with Republicans, with conservatives, and be trusted by them. You were the model “purple” politician.
You might not be in the U.S. Senate in 2013. But I know you will remain in public service for the public good. Because that is who you are. That is who you will always be
} and it sums up what kind of Senator he was for 24 years and why the country will miss him.
