Irving Stolberg gives a significant endorsement to Ned Lamont:
Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years. We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970. He was my state senator and I was his state representative. He rose to Senate majority leader as I became speaker of the House. With others, we formed the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, a progressive coalition, to further the causes of peace in Vietnam and justice at home.
I have supported him in every election he has had – until now.
As Joe points out, his record on a number of issues, such as the environment, is good. But on the two biggest issues of our times, he is dead wrong.
His blind support of the Iraq war, begun illegally and a continuing catastrophe, is monstrous.
And his defense of an incompetent president, a vice president who fits the dictionary definition of fascism and an extremist administration that has perpetrated torture, illegal eavesdropping and a general shredding of the Constitution is insulting to the people who elected him in the first place.
Strong words, but totally appropriate. And more proof that even though the war in Iraq is the biggest reason to dump Joe, it is not the only reason. When faced with the ‘fascism’ of Dick Cheney, opposition is the only option. Joe may be one of the last Democrats in the country to not realize this.
Meanwhile, Joe Klein’s take is a shade less better than his normal enraging drivel.
