On Thursday, Democratic challenger Ned Lamont criticized incumbent now-Independent Sen Joe Lieberman for his 1998 speech chastising President Clinton's behavior - as Jennifer Medina of The New York Times reported:
Ned Lamont, Connecticut's Democratic Senate candidate, has sharply criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's public rebuke of former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, suggesting this week that Mr. Lieberman turned his back on a decades-old friendship and helped make a tragic episode a "media spectacle."
Mr. Lamont said on Wednesday night that he shared Mr. Lieberman's "moral outrage" over Mr. Clinton's sexual misbehavior, but Mr. Lamont was harsh in attacking a speech that was praised as principled by many leaders in both parties and helped propel the Connecticut senator to national prominence."You don't go to the floor of the Senate and turn this into a media spectacle," Mr. Lamont said of Mr. Lieberman's remarks eight years ago this month.
"You go up there, you sit down with one of your oldest friends and say, 'You're embarrassing yourself, you're embarrassing your presidency, you're embarrassing your family, and it's got to stop.' " he said.
Read it all at link above. Lamont, however, evidently has long-term memory problems. Lieberman's office released an email yesterday, sent by Lamont in 1998, praising the speech. Medina reported in the NYT yesterday:
Ned Lamont, who this week chastised Senator Joseph I. Lieberman for his public rebuke of President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, wrote to Mr. Lieberman at the time praising the eloquence of his speech on the Senate floor.
"I supported your statement because Clinton's behavior was outrageous: a Democrat had to stand up and state as much, and I hoped that your statement was the beginning of the end," Mr. Lamont, then a cable television executive, wrote in an e-mail message to the senator's Washington office on Sept. 16, 1998, two weeks after Mr. Lieberman's speech.
Read it all at the link above the quote. I guess Lamont was FOR Lieberman's speech before he was against it . . .
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thre's a perfect vacuum beh... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Ironman | September 10, 2006 8:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
thre's a perfect vacuum behind the Armani suit
1. Posted by Ironman | September 10, 2006 8:57 AM |
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Posted on September 10, 2006 08:57
2. Posted by The Crack Young Staff | September 10, 2006 9:42 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, Jim, we like your zippy end to this "post" much more than ours. So, even if it's a few hours later, the "FOR Lieberman's speech before he was against it" makes it all worth while.
2. Posted by The Crack Young Staff | September 10, 2006 9:42 AM |
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Posted on September 10, 2006 09:42
3. Posted by equitus | September 10, 2006 10:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This empty suit comes with a reversible jacket.
3. Posted by equitus | September 10, 2006 10:42 PM |
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Posted on September 10, 2006 22:42