Senator Joseph Lieberman, Daily Kos, and the Future of the Democratic Party
Found this while blog surfing……
Sphere: Related ContentI’ve never really paid that much attention to The Daily Kos. I don’t like its politics and I don’t care for its publisher, Markos Moulitsas. But I’m feeling some pangs of anger toward Kos now, after watching this Nightline episode covering Moulitsas’ blog campaign to defeat Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.
Lieberman’s in the final leg of his primary campaign against insurgent challenger Ned Lamont. For my earlier post on Lieberman’s primary challenge, click here. Daily Kos has pledged the defeat of Lieberman to be one of its top political priorities in this year’s election season. The reason? Lieberman has emerged as the Senate’s top Democrat supporting the American project of democracy-building in Iraq. Lieberman published an important essay in the Wall Street Journal last November after visiting the Iraq, arguing against a precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country. Here’s what Liberman said of Iraq, following the nation’s January 2005 elections:
In the face of terrorist threats and escalating violence, eight million Iraqis voted for their interim national government in January, almost 10 million participated in the referendum on their new constitution in October, and even more than that are expected to vote in the elections for a full-term government on Dec. 15. Every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given the chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them.
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