Word: liebermanically
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...there's no dispensation for purely political events, so Sabbath campaign appearances are out. Lieberman was not present when Connecticut's state Democratic Party met on a Saturday in 1982 to nominate him for attorney general. His observance of the Sabbath may have cost him four years earlier, when he failed to attend the party convention, then lost in a contest to be nominated as lieutenant governor, a loss some say was due in part to his absence from the hall. The prize went to William O'Neill, who went on not only to be elected but also to assume...
Early last Monday morning, soon after Lieberman and his wife heard on television that he had been chosen as Gore's running mate, they joined their daughter Hana and Lieberman's 85-year-old mother Marcia around the breakfast table. Lieberman offered a homemade prayer in Hebrew. "We thank God for this miracle upon us, through a wonderful person like Al Gore and through God's will." The family repeated the prayer in English, says Marcia, "just so we could hear it again. God was smiling on us." If the smiles keep coming and if the Gore-Lieberman ticket wins...
...Lieberman is a good guy. How many times have you heard that this week? Even George Bush said so, adding that it made Lieberman just like him! Lieberman dispatched that one with the old chestnut about thinking the veterinarian and the taxidermist are alike since both give you back your dog. How like a good guy to tell such a lame joke with such obvious delight. Rubber-faced, slow-talking, yet irrepressibly exuberant, Lieberman at his introduction in Nashville, Tenn., was already rubbing off on the usually constrained Gore, who nearly scampered about the stage retrieving a camera left there...
...good-guy part of Lieberman wouldn't be worth mentioning if Republicans weren't striving to be the Good Guy Party. The Bush campaign is premised almost exclusively on the strength of Bush's personality and the perceived weakness of Gore's and the character-free behavior of You-Know-Who. Now Gore has seen the Republicans' Barney-ness and raised them...
...know Joe Lieberman through Bill Curry, who sat beside him in the Connecticut state legislature. Curry enlisted Lieberman in his fight against substandard nursing homes, which meant bucking the power of the popular Democratic Governor, Ella Grasso. "Once Joe saw it was the right thing to do, I never had to look over my shoulder to make sure he was still with me," Curry says. He has had only one bone to pick with Lieberman. Soon after Curry lost the '94 Governor's race and joined the Clinton White House, he got a complaining phone call from his mother, feeling...