Lieberman's Distortion

AS PUBLISHED IN "THE ADVOCATE" OF STAMFORD 10/18/06
Letters To The Editor
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
To the editor:

At the U.S. Senate debate (Advocate news story, analysis, Oct. 17), Joe Lieberman made the contrived claim that his experience with bipartisanship was required and gave as examples recently enacted legislation, including port security and efforts concerning Long Island Sound.He failed to highlight his bipartisan lack of judgment on Iraq, Katrina, Social Security, subsidies for oil companies and special lobbyist-induced legislation for the pharmaceutical industry. Nor did he explain why his so-called bipartisan efforts at homeland security took five years after 9/11.

Lieberman also had the mendacity to accuse Ned Lamont of running a negative campaign and then proceeded to be the most negative participant in the debate, launching many unfounded ad hominem attacks.He also squirmed to distance himself from the very same criticism that he used to tarnish Lowell Weicker 18 years ago and claimed that his absenteeism was justified by his 2000 run for vice president and his quixotic effort to secure the presidential nomination in 2004, which yielded an embarrassingly poor showing in early primaries.But his excuses are shallow and fail to measure up to the serious implications of missing votes on Social Security, health care, education, Iraq and homeland security.

As to his belief that he had possessed the mantle of gravitas to secure the presidential nomination, he forgets he was sent to Washington, D.C., to make decisions and cast votes for the citizens of Connecticut and promised he would not miss votes as did his predecessor. He also promised to serve no more than three terms.So Mr. Lieberman, isn't your time up?

Stewart M. Casper
Casper & de Toledo LLC
1458 Bedford St.
Stamford, CT 06905

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