Web Letters: President Lieberman: A Cautionary Tale

'Loserman' is a phony "Democrat"; he has taken over from that ugly, old, snarling fire-breathing, Bush-loving dinosaur of a "Democrat," Zel Miller. Both of them should have been kicked out of the party long time ago.

P.S. By the way, whatever happened to nasty old Zel?

Paul Amigo

Pennington Gap, VA

I guess what this means is that a fully Zionist President would be worse than an evangelical-Zionist President.

Is the government controlled by Zionists or are Zionists the dupes of the government evangelicals?

Norman Ravitch

Savannah, GA

Lieberman is the worst decision Al Gore ever made and it didn't even get him Florida. Since then Lieberman, a passive campaigner in the 2000 race, has become a feint senator with dreams of stature after losing the 2000 race. He's the old politics, and Connecticut failed to see through him.

Clinton J. Vickers
Democrats Abroad, Turkey

Sammamish, WA

Now, can someone read this astute piece and tell me again why Nader's candidacy was so bad?

Douglas Presler

Minneapolis, MN

I was watching NBC television's live coverage of the staged toppling of Saddam's statue, when suddenly Israeli lobbyist Lieberman appeared on my TV screen. Joe had been waiting in the wings to deliver the Israeli frame for the future by orating; "Now we have to go after those terrorists in Damascus and Teheran."

Gerald Spezio

Willits, CA

I'd just like to make a comment about Lieberman that does not try to imagine what a hypothetical presidency may have been like but rather on his behavior in the Bush era.

I feel that Senator Lieberman has become a gift to anti-Semites, acting out all of the worst, ugliest stereotypes against us; and, secondly, holds militaristic, hyper-hawkish views that are sharply opposed by predominant American Jewish opinion, as a recent article in Vanity Fair pointed out (its focus being on the sharp divergence between the fairly left-wing views of American Jewish opinion and how we're represented in the political sphere). So I say these things as a concerned American and a concerned Jew.

Whatever his thoughts on social justice, softening the economic playing field etc., what counts most is his projection of the most horrific tropes and slanders against the Jewish people throughout history: double-crossing, mendacity, etc. The history is ugly enough, even more so the present embodiment of these slurs. That said, I also condemn his past efforts to censor the entertainment industry, but that is neither here nor there.

Alex Cacioppo

Bethesda, MD