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...almost exactly two years ago, at that moment in the Lewinsky matter when Bill Clinton was making his sweatiest dodges about "inappropriate" behavior, that Bill Bennett, the saturnine Republican, phoned Joe Lieberman, the deeply religious Democrat. For several years Lieberman had been Bennett's partner in a fight against Jerry Springer, blood-spurting video games, Marilyn Manson and the general run of rap lyrics. Now Bennett wanted Lieberman to speak to Clinton. "You need to tell him to resign," he said, "because you're Nathan...
Nathan? Bennett, a devout Roman Catholic, knew that Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew deeply immersed in the Bible, did not need to be reminded that Nathan was the prophet sent by God to upbraid King David for inappropriate behavior with Bathsheba. "I thought [Lieberman] was the closest thing in the Senate to an Old Testament prophet," says Bennett...
...does Al Gore. That's one reason Lieberman found himself in Nashville last week being introduced by Gore as his running mate. Quite a stretch from four years ago, when Lieberman spoke at the Democratic Convention but was wrongly introduced as a Senator from New Jersey. There's a funny political symmetry at work this year. The Republicans threw a Democratic Convention, all about compassion and tolerance and inclusiveness. Now the Democrats have a vice-presidential candidate who talks about God as eagerly as any evangelical Republican. Lieberman describes himself as an "observant Jew." Those are words that just begin...
...world doesn't get more here and now than a presidential campaign. So the next few months will go beyond merely testing how well Lieberman can conduct a full campaign when he can't ride in a car or talk on a telephone on the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. What will really be tested is what happens to Gore's campaign with the addition of a man like Lieberman, a Democrat who was happy to mention God more than a dozen times in the first minute of that Nashville rally. Gore really did gamble...
...Religion is what drives the man," says Rabbi Barry Freundel, Lieberman's spiritual adviser in Washington. "His religious values shape the way he functions as a Senator." But if Lieberman possesses the tragic sense that's one of Judaism's hard-earned cultural gifts to Western civilization, he has managed to subordinate it to an all-American contentment. "I grew up in a multiethnic, multiracial, multireligious community, and I was lucky," Lieberman told TIME last week. "I cannot remember a single instance of anti-Semitism in my youth. That undoubtedly is why I'm so optimistic about the country...