Perhaps former President Bill Clinton could have repaid Sen. Joe Lieberman for his 1998 Monica Lewinsky speech by making a similar speech on Monday condemning Lieberman for his support of George Bush. It's hard to tell which was more disgusting, Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky or Lieberman with Bush.
There are some that say Lieberman's speech helped Clinton and the Democrats for providing the outrage many Americans were feeling toward the president, thereby ending the desire for retribution except among the most extreme Americans. It was no surprise that most Americans supported Clinton and that his approval ratings were double of that of Bush.
Most Americans were smart enough to figure out there is large difference about lying or misleading the public about a personal failure in one's personal life than lying or misleading the public about sending Americans to die in a foreign country.
Too many in the media are painting Lieberman's trouble solely to his vote regarding Iraq. Today Lieberman says he is in the fight of his political life. It's too bad he didn't think that the 2000 Presidential election was the fight of his political life.
Instead in the debates with Cheney he was unwilling to challenge dishonest statements like that in his road to riches that "the government had nothing to do with it," Cheney said -- a remark that overlooked that his firm had received more than $2 billion in federal contracts for support of American troops on peacekeeping missions."
Cheney and many on the right were disdainful of Lieberman in 2000 but today it's interesting that those on the right now support Lieberman. Funny these were the same people who were calling him Loserman in 2000.
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