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...been a noisy night. Press trucks were gathering on the street in front of their New Haven house, and the Liebermans were having trouble sleeping. Somewhere around 3 a.m. Hadassah Lieberman stuck head out her bedroom window and said, "Shhh, too much noise." Hadassah says she was still half-asleep in bed at 6:55 a.m. Monday when Joe heard a snippet on TV that he had been chosen to be Al Gore's running mate. "Come on Joey, don't kid around," Hadassah told him. "Then the 'Today Show' had this whole big story about Joey becoming the candidate...
...there may have been an early clue in Joe Lieberman's speech at the Tennessee veep announcement. He confided to the world that the day he received the phone offer from Al Gore had reminded him of "that Beatles song 'Magical Mystery Tour...
...Senator Lieberman mentioned God 16 times in his announcement speech, even invoking evangelical Christian tradition when he asked the party faithful to "allow me to let the spirit move me as it does" before citing the injunction in Chronicles to "give thanks to God, and declare His name and make His acts known to the people, to be glad of spirit, to sing to God, and make music to God, and most of all, to give glory in gratitude to God from whom all blessings truly do flow." And for good measure, he championed Al Gore as an unwavering father...
...Democrats' image-making is clearly relying on Lieberman's presence to invoke the sort of Old Testament avenging angel who'll rain down plagues at the first sign of moral turpitude. Conventional political wisdom may suggest that picking a religious Jew would have cost Gore among undecided voters in the Bible Belt, but that's not necessarily the case. These are End Times, after all, and Christian prophesies that accord a major role to the Jews in the apocalyptic buildup that they believe will precede the Second Coming of Christ have prompted an unprecedented enthusiasm for Israel and Jews among...
...convention choreography that will be adopted by the Democratic image makers, but don't be surprised if there's more than a dose of Old Time religion. Made all the more incongruous, perhaps, by the fact that the whole shebang is going down in the precincts of Hollywood, which Lieberman has regularly joined the Christian right in denouncing as the most morally disreputable of Democratic strongholds...