Lieberman Dismisses GOP Veep Speculation

Too bad….If Lieberman was chosen as McCain’s VP nominee it would give me 101 reasons not to vote for McCain….Now, I only have 100.

Leiberman would be a great choice.

Lieberman is correct – McCain can do much better. And Gore could have chosen better too. Live and learn….

Doesn’t gall you when that man calls himself a democratic senator? It’s down right insulting.

Why does Lieberman matter? because he holds the democratic majority together? He’s more guilty than anyone else of the mess in Iraq. Go lobby for israel’s security – american interests are second in line.

Some of these comments are really funny when you think about them. Especially about Obama being flawed because of no father in his life. Really, how do you know how much time Admiral McCain actually spent raising young John. Or the person who asserts that Obama has no moral compass. At least Obama has been a consistent churchgoer over the years. McCain really has very little moral compass if church attendance or lack of church attendfance is any indication. It is really humorous that so many people think and write about moral compass without really looking at the growing-up time and background of the two candidates.

Lieberman is a gentle, honorable man. He’d make a fine VP. This country has lost it’s taste for honorable leaders and statesmen. Instead we want the candidate who serves our niche interests best. What a pity.

Someone needs to proofread this article it’s a formatting mess.

Too bad Lieberman won’t run as McCain’s VP. If he did, he could be one of the few people, if not the only person, to lose TWO elections as the VP nominee.

maybe john edwards will run for VP again, it would be nice to see him lose again.

OK let’s say you are the president and Iran just nuked Israel, who would you rather consult Obama or McCain for military advice?
The answer is who our next president will be.

Too bad–now I won’t get a chance to vote against him in November, and only the folks in CT will get that pleasure should he try to fool his constituency once again.
Dems won’t need him to caucus after November, and I don’t think there will be a McCain administration to appoint him as Secretary of Remembering How To Tell Shite From Sunni From Al Qaida Or Whatever Instead Of Killing Them All And Letting God Sort Them Out or whatever.
Bye Joe.

Check out “Vietnam veterans against Mccain” or “Missing, Presumed Dead” McCain collaborated with the VC and men died. McCain AND Kerry didn’t allow a continuance of the POW commission, and rushed to normalize relations with Vietnam, without a full accounting of POWS alive or dead in Vietnam. It is entirely possible that these actions resulted in American POWS that were then and could still now be in Southeast Asia as slave labor. Which are being sighted and reported even to this day. McCain is NO hero, he is a traitor who sold out his fellow men into slavery and forgot about them and left they and there familes to suffer permanetly. He is the scum of the Earth and is unqualified to be dog catcher, let alone commander in cheif. Look for yourself. The info is there. Don’t let yourself blindly suppport anybody without looking at both sides of their character. Remember giving Bush the benefit of the doubt… TWICE!!!!

Lieberman was the best thing the Dem party had going for them. He was a reasonable man who made his decisions from common sense and hard data, not rank ugly partisan politics like the rest of the Dem Sheep politicians. So of course, the Dem party threw him out (or did their best to do so).
They screwed up badly, and Joe beat them hands down. Now he is an independent and the better man for it, but the dummy dems need his votes and have to suck up even today.
Way to go dems.

McCain/Liberman will be the ticket Dems would love to beat the c**P out of in November. :) Joe, please do it!

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OK let’s say you are the president and Iran just nuked Israel, who would you rather consult Obama or McCain for military advice?
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Neither! Someone who has served in a leadership position in Military. Lets say Colin Powel or may be Wesley Clark?

“Lets say Colin Powel or may be Wesley Clark”
they aren’t in the room dumb dumb. you fail!

john is a real rocket scientist

the other thing about libs and discrimination is they do it against race and age. And Clinton included gender in his.
I wonder if libs want to rip off McCains nuts…

So the senator from Israel doesn’t want the VP job. I guess Jerusalem told him not to take it.

Senator Obama is the most undesirable candidate for prezz in a long time. His background, creditials and associates are all questions. He needs vetting REAL BAD.

It is been said Israel is a smart country that gets other countries to bleed and fight their proxy wars for them. Joe Liebermann is one such linchpin that makes sure that happens. He is the head of the Israeli lobby group in the Senate. That is his suit, looking out for Israeli interest first, and American second. Bad choice for VP, he would hasten the rush to war with Iran.

How sad you are. Searching through thoughts to see if someone spelled Lenin correctly.
I know that there is someone who can spell it correctly and his name is Obama.

Lieberman is the only liberal that wouldn’t wet his pants and surrender to our enemies so the Democratic party hates him now. Obama makes friends with known terrorists and can’t even stand up to Hillary let alone any countries in the Middle East.

and the arrogant Obama wanted to speak in Germany by the Brandenburg Gate, just to have a picture like Kennedy or Regan, LOL. Is like having a German candidate campaigning at the Lincoln Monument in D.C. He can’t wait to be President, he loves adoration and big events!!!!! Obama the all talk no record flip-flopper candidate!
This will bee his second trip to Europe and he believes he will save the world!! LOL

John should choose Obama for vise Pres. and Obama should choose John for Vise pres. Let the best combo win.

oBAMA is a great choice if you care about IRAN more than the United States. Muslim extremism is very appealing if you like murdering innocent children and violating Geneva Conventions with collective punishment and retaliation against civilians. Let’s get this baby murderer in office!
Oh and Obama… spare me. He rolled over on FISA Immunity. There’s a sneak peak at what to expect. A coward that will take away all your civil rights because he is scared of terrorists.

http://www.americansolutions.com/

LETS REMEMBER B. H. OBAMA NEVER WON AN HONEST ELECTION. HE GOT TO BOTH THE STATE SENATE AND THE U. S. SENATE BY DEFAULT. HE WAS FAR BEHIND IN HIS RUN FOR THE US SENATE WHEN A VERY LIBERAL JUDGE OPENED SEALED DIVORCE FILES ON HIS OPPONENT AND HE WITHDREW TO AVOID GETTING HIS EX-WIFE AND CHILDREN DRAGGED THRU THE LIBERAL MUD. OBAMA’S MUSH BRAIN FOLLOWERS HAVE BEEN DRINKING LARGE DOSES OF KOOL-AID. THE ANTECDOTE FOR THAT IS TRUTH, A WORD AND DEED OBAMA NEVER USES.

In just the last four days, McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. an “absolute disgrace,” his top economic adviser described the American people as whiners, McCain released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, he flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he clearly made—TWICE.
The L.A. Times front-pages, ‘McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship: The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends — and his version doesn’t always match that in court documents.
Yesterday Sen. John McCain ventured to an auto-parts supplier in this hard-hit Detroit suburb to express sympathy for those affected by Michigan’s economic malaise and to talk up his ideas for creating jobs in the region. But a day after a top McCain economic adviser dismissed the nation’s struggles as a ‘mental recession,’ the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s message landed with a thud, as workers sat in stony silence.
McCain/Lieberman – what a ticket for the Democrats to beat! Go, Joe!

I’m simply flabbergasted that someone above would say Lieberman “backdoored” the electoral process to stay the Senator from CT. Last time I looked, the candidate who gets the most votes (from members of all parties) wins the election. Just because the politically-active Dems turned him out for a moron in the primary in 06, doesn’t mean that the majority of the electorate, who was very happy with Joe, had to go along. also, in four more years if the majority of folks decide to turn him out, then that’s the way it works, too.

to poor Becky: have you seen the pictures of McCain’s cell shown again today on ABC? Disparage the guy all you want – that’s your right, but come on, stick to facts; don’t just make stuff up to support your agenda.

Kick that traitor Lieberman out of the Senate and the country before him and his traitorous, subversive Zionist lobbying groups like JINSA and AIPAC take our once great country down. We all know where his allegiances lie. These Zionists need to leave the country before they ruin it. Go fight your own wars.
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gate is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
~Cicero 45 BC

Are there any real Republicans left? Is it not the most unfathomable thing that this was even a possibility? I voted against Lieberman in 2000 and now he’s best buds with the GOP candidate?
McCain has no control over his campaign at this point. He’s got Carly Fiorina pushing birth control on the one hand and Phil Gramm completely clueless on the economy on the other hand.

No..no….McCain needs a woman as a VP to draw in many of Hilliarys old supporters especially if Obama choses some dull old white guy as his vp. Hewitt-Packers ex. boss should do well.

It should be about policy. But all I hear from the left is “change”. Okay, change can b good. But you need to follow that up with something specific. We could elect Lindsay Lohan, that would be a change. The lack of any type experience does not seem to be an issue for the party of “change” so I don’t see a problem.

Obama was ‘quite
religious in Islam’
Contemporaries, records dispute campaign
claim that he was never ‘practicing Muslim’
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Posted: April 03, 2008
12:40 am Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam?
The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama’s personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as “L Soetoro Ma,” worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army.
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama’s school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled – also as a Muslim, according to documents – in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta.
(Story continues below)
The Loatze blog run by an American expatriate in Southeast Asia who visited the Besuki school, noted, “All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young ‘Barry Soetoro’ being a Muslim would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.”
Indeed, the Israel Insider online magazine points out in Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” he acknowledges studying the Quran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”
“In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies,” wrote Obama.
The Indonesian media have been flooded with accounts of Obama’s childhood Islamic studies, some describing him as a religious Muslim .
Speaking to the country’s Kaltim Post, Tine Hahiyary, who was principal of Obama’s school while he was enrolled there, said she recalls he studied the Quran in Arabic.
“At that time, I was not Barry’s teacher but he is still in my memory” claimed Tine, who is 80 years old. The Kaltim Post says Obama’s teacher, named Hendri, died.
“I remember that he studied ‘mengaji (recitation of the Quran),” Tine said, according to an English translation by Loatze.
Mengaji, or the act of reading the Quran with its correct Arabic punctuation, is usually taught to more religious pupils and is not known as a secular study.
Also, Loatze documented the Indonesian daily Banjarmasin Post caught up with Rony Amir, an Obama classmate and Muslim, who describe Obama as “previously quite religious in Islam.”
“We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong (waist fabric worn for religious or casual occasions) he looked funny,” Amir said.
The Los Angeles Times, which sent a reporter to Jakarta, quoted Zulfin Adi, who identified himself as among Obama’s closest childhood friends, stating the presidential candidate prayed in a mosque, something Obama’s campaign claimed he never did.
“We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played,” said Adi.
Obama’s official campaign site has a page titled “Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.” The page states, “Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ.”
But the campaign changed its tune when it issued a slightly different statement to the Times stating Obama “has never been a practicing Muslim.”
An article last month by the Chicago Tribune seems to dispute Adi’s statements to the L.A. Times. The Tribune catches up with Obama’s declared childhood friend, who now describes himself as only knowing Obama for a few months in 1970 when his family moved to the neighborhood. Adi said he was unsure about his recollections of Obama
But the Tribune found Obama did attend mosque.
“Interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia,” states the Tribune article.
It quotes the presidential candidate’s former neighbors and 3rd grade teacher recalling Obama “occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers.”
Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, notes the Tribune article – cited by liberal blogs as refuting claims Obama is Muslim – actually implies Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim and twice confirms Obama attended mosque services.
In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
The Times’ Nicholos Kristof wrote Obama recited, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer.
Israel Insider’s Reuven Koret notes the first few lines state:
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet… ”
Some attention also has been paid to Obama’s paternal side of the family. His father, described in some reports as an atheist, polygamist and alcoholic, was buried in Kenya as a Muslim. Obama Sr., also named Barack Obama, had three sons with another woman who reportedly all are Muslim.
Obama’s brother Roy is described as a practicing Muslim.
Writing in a chapter of his book describing his 1992 wedding, the presidential candidate stated: “The person who made me proudest of all was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.”
Still, Obama says he was raised by his Christian mother and repeatedly has labeled as “smears” several reports attempting to paint him as a Muslim.
“Let’s make clear what the facts are: I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible. I pledge allegiance [to the American flag] and lead the pledge of allegiance sometimes in the United States Senate when I’m presiding,” he told the UK’s Times Online earlier this year.

As a Ct voter I am totally disgusted by Liebermans actions…He has not done anything for ct since his reelection…I would hope this will be his last term…he would be a do nothing vp…..

If Leiberman had been run against Bush he would have won. He would have gotten the “Religious Right” vote because he actually practices his beliefs without fan-fair or apology. Although there are many things with which most conservatives disagree, before he was the VP candidate he was consistent and clear in his beliefs and actions. All of his op-ed pieces were online to be read by anyone who cared to do so. They were very consistent; his actions and votes were discussed openly in the paper to those in his district. Lieberman had nothing to hide and no apologies to make.
His adoption of the “party line” during the election broke trust with all of those who would have supported him for any higher office. Gore was a non-entity at the time; he had done very little to be recognizable to the public in a Presidential election.
The nomination of Kerry in the following election caused a great deal of harm to the party. He was distastful to as many Democrats as Republicans. “Swift-boating” was unnecessary–enough people remembered the 1970s (and his actions) to render him un-electable.
The ignorance displayed by so many of the comments here is appalling.

Joe: you are my hero. Please reconsider. I’ve been hoping for it to happen. What a dream ticket to help unite us all. The tine is now.

Lieberman should join the Republican ticket…. he’s the only one that makes McCain look young! It would definitely be the old folks ticket.
Seriously, I am looking forward to an increased Senate majority so that Liberman can be booted out of the party sent to the minority where he belongs.

>>Lieberman is the only liberal that wouldn’t wet his pants and surrender to our enemies so the Democratic party hates him now
There’s nothing liberal about LIEberman. He’s to the right of most Republicans.

Surely Americans deserve someone who’s
10% loyal to America.
Lieberman (I-Israel) is one of the worst of the dual loyalists. Whatever war or time on the taxpayer trough that Israel wants, Liberman is their boy.
A disgusting man.

If it were not for Lieberman, Al Gore would have been president. Maybe cunning Joe did it on purpose.

Why is Obama given credit for being against the war when he was a state legislator from IL, but was not clairvoyant enough to know what was happening in his own church?? As far as Joe running as an independant, he beat the moveon.org crowd at their own game. Ha Ha

I fly a private jet everday to work and I drive Hummers. Oh wait, no that’s not me, that’s Arnold Swartzenpigger. My house uses more energy than 20 times the national average. Oh wait, no that’s not me, that’s Al Gore. I have Carbon Credits for sale so you can use as much energy as you want. Oh wait, no that’s not me, that’s Al Gore and it’s Arnold buying those credits so he can be a hypocritical enery pig.
Tell these idiots to fix the problem:
http://www.americansolutions.com/
http://www.americansforjobsandenergy.org/home.html

McCain should pick Hillary Clinton. All we have are liberals for choices anyway.

How unfortunate that so many responders herein are unable to comment on actual facts and being ignorant of them have to resort to name calling and insinuations and smears. Anyone can resort to these tactics, but that doesn’t make them so. What a bunch of nitpickers. Some liberals say that Obama isn’t liberal enough. Some conservatives say McCain is not conservative enough. Those bloomin idiots on both sides have never figured out why the business of voting for the lesser of the two evils is their real choice. No candidate is perfect, only that some are less perfect than others. Those of you who will vote for a candidate in spite of his many known failings are ignorant buffoons who really do not deserve to have a vote.
So who do I support? Thats for me to know and for you to wonder who. It will be the lesser of the two evils in any case. That’s the best we can hope for.

Well Russ, that is the argument that most of us are faced with. I say, follow me boys and vote for a third party. Take your pick — there are many to choose from. However, the fact is this: if we do not get this present, partisan government weaned off of the current two-party sham, we as a free people are doomed. Myself, I’ll be voting Libertarian this time around.

The overwhelming majority of Congress and every President since Reagan (with arguably the exception of the first Bush) has been rock solid on Israel. Lieberman shares these same views yet he’s singuarly labeled by several posters here as being disloyal by supposedly serving Israel’s interests first. Could it be because he’s Jewish? This is an old anti-semetic canard and its disapointing in 2008 to see these same tired prejudices dragged out.

Lieberman would be a great choice and one that would be respected by both parties. He is a good man with very high standards which the dems do not have.

Senator Lieberman has an important role to play as the “Scoop Jackson” Senator at the beginning of the 21st Century.

it is the lunatics in the democrapic party that marginilized joe liberman who is a fine person and good senator. while liberman has over an 80% voting records with the dems, that is not enough to satisfy the daily kos and other morons on the left. while bush has had many failures, he is no jimmy carter or obama. people should unite and elect a moderate republican not a left wing democrat.

“The overwhelming majority of Congress and every President since Reagan (with arguably the exception of the first Bush) has been rock solid on Israel. Lieberman shares these same views yet he’s singuarly labeled by several posters here as being disloyal by supposedly serving Israel’s interests first. Could it be because he’s Jewish? This is an old anti-semetic canard and its disapointing in 2008 to see these same tired prejudices dragged out.”
Don’t fret. If it were up to me. I’d have the whole lot of the Israel loyalitys, including the “Shabbos goys” wearing yellow badges. There is no difference for me between these Shabbos-Goy False-Christian-Zionists and a Talmudic-Zionist. Every president since Reagan has been a traitor to his country. Now ya happy?
I hereby bestow upon the Shabbos Goys of the nation official honorary jews; may your children grow that coveted hooked-nose and your daughters have Sarah Jessica jewish-man-face. Gold bless you. Such a beautiful people loved by the lord!!

I can figure out if your are worthy of my time between whether or not you “stand by Israel” as some sort of false-Christian retard, or focused on Issues pertenent to Americans such as the Iowa flood, addressing the needs of our people.
We are different beasts. I am getting fed up with the “Israel Israel Israel, we must stand by Israel!”; “God will bless who bless and curse who curse!” crowd. (I’m no big religious man; but I know the only way to the father is through the son; so I figure these Bible! Bible! Bible!, Israel! Israel! Israel! fools are apostates).
The Zionist vs. American conflict is beginning to look alot like abolition vs. slavery. Zionists are a danger to our republic, I wish to secede from them.