Hush your mouth!

My Way News - Lieberman irks Democrats by criticizing Obama

" ... The reason: The independent [Lieberman] still caucuses with the Democrats on most issues except the Iraq war, and he holds their slim political majority in his hands.

"There's a commonly held hope that he's not going to be transformed into an attack dog for Republicans," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., an Obama supporter.

Lieberman has wasted no time in questioning Obama's positions on Iran and Israel, two topics on which Lieberman and McCain agree. Just one day after Obama clinched his party's nomination, Lieberman joined Republicans on a McCain campaign teleconference call assailing Obama following his foreign policy address to a leading Jewish group.

Lieberman accused Obama of blaming U.S. policies for "essentially sort of strengthening" Iran.

"If Israel is in danger today, it's not because of American foreign policy, which has been strongly supportive of Israel in every way," he said. "It is not because of what we have done in Iraq. It is because Iran is a fanatical terrorist, expansionist state."

Later that day, during a budget vote in the Senate, Obama led Lieberman to a corner of the Senate floor for a pointed private conversation. Without elaborating, Obama told reporters the chat was about politics. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had a similar private conversation with Lieberman.

For his part, Lieberman said he assured Obama he would avoid personal attacks. "

Since when can explaining a personal point of view on an issue be considered a 'personal attack'?

They however seem to be trying to coherse Lieberman into voting their way and suppressing his own personal opinion. They treat him like he is still in their party - sorry guys, you closed that door when you turned tail on him after the 2000 election .... I would love for him to say 'screw you' to all of them and start voting the repubs way (just to stick it to them).

Go Joe!! He has the power and he should use it.

"... Democrats have reason to tolerate Lieberman's actions. If he were to caucus with the GOP, the balance of power in the narrowly divided Senate would slip away, especially with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., battling brain cancer.
Democrats need Lieberman to maintain their 51-49 Senate majority..."

So why are the dems so upset, really? Lieberman is the chairman of the Homeland Security & Gov. Affairs committee -- he knows that Obama is weak on national security to the point of being a bad president.

When the chairman of a committee speaks - the nation should listen ... generally they are privy to information that we could never imagine. If he says there's a concern - listen!

But the proof comes from Sen. Kerry himself (you know the last Democratic presidential nominee?) -

"... While there's no serious talk afoot about punishing Lieberman, Kerry said, "I can't tell you what happens next year." ..."

And this was the man that we almost had as President ... I think the dems have lost their way, totally.