Most of us who can recall 1988, 2000, and 2004 are getting a little bit of a deja vu feeling these days.  Yes, it's still fairly early, yes the atmospherics of this race visibly favor the Dems across the board, and yes, Team Obama (TO) has a field organization whose strength probably is not showing up in the polling data right now.  OTOH, seeing Obama's once-solid lead dwindle to nothingness on FiveThirtyEight.com, the site that many of us trust the most*, stirs up some painful feelings of deja vu.

There are many arguments that can be made as to why the once comfortable gap has evaporated in recent weeks.  Even more arguments can be made as to how the gap can be restored.  A quick examination of the relationship between Sen. Obama and his one-time Senate mentor, however, highlights a core problem facing the Obama candidacy.

I may be a Rhode Islander now, but I was born and raised just outside New Haven, CT.  I was born in the same hospital as George W. Bush, which is pretty darn freaky.  I also had an apartment (for a short time) two blocks from Joe Lieberman's house, in the upscale neighborhood near Yale Golf Course along Forest Road.

WTF is this nonsense?

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Well, big surprise. Joe LIEberman is going to speak at the GOP convention.

AP - Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.

Joining the ranks of another turncoat Zell Miller (do you remember him?), LIEberman will praise the virtues of the GOP, while dissing the Democratic presidential nominee. He will probably be nearby when McCain gives his acceptance speech, perhaps hidden behind a curtain (like the Great Oz), prompting the old guy with pertinent information, (like where St. Paul is located).

OK, I'm at work so, quickly, with no opining or other commentary (I will leave that to you).

WTF?

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Well I can't say I'm shocked.

http://ap.google.com/...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican official tells The Associated Press that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman will be speaking at the Republican National Convention.

The GOP official said Wednesday that Lieberman would deliver a speech as Republicans gathered in St. Paul to nominate John McCain for president. The official requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to make an announcement.

Looks like Holy Joe will get to live his dream of being the next Zell Miller.

So what kind of nasty things do you think he'll say about Obama?

(Edited to remove "breaking" from headline so that zombies won't come and eat me.)

From www.courant.com

   

Lieberman A Possible Running Mate For McCain

   The NRA gave him an F. He is endorsed by advocates of abortion rights and gay rights. And, oh, yeah, he was Al Gore's running mate and remains a registered Democrat.

   With a deep laugh, even Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has questioned if he would be a smart vice presidential pick for his friend, Republican John McCain.

   But the Associated Press and the Politico, a respected online news site, each reported Tuesday that Lieberman, a self-proclaimed "independent Democrat," remains among McCain's potential running mates.

   And those stories already are riling the right. A horrified Rush Limbaugh told his listeners that he considered the reports on Lieberman to be a serious trial balloon.

"It's not a head fake, apparently, it's a serious float," Limbaugh said. "McCain's trying to gauge, take the temperature of delegates to the convention and these high donors. This is tough because I like Joe Lieberman a lot. He's a fine guy."

I don't think Lieberman is going to be the McCain monkey....

As speculation grows around who John McCain will select as his vice presidential running mate next week, Republican National Committee officials said Tuesday that McCain is no longer considering former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.

Several sources at the RNC told FOX News that in the last 36 hours, senior McCain advisers and aides have told RNC officials that McCain "got the message" last week that choosing a running mate who supports abortion rights would not be helpful.

GOP pundits had been vocal in urging the presumptive presidential nominee not to pick a running mate who supports abortion rights. Ridge, the first homeland security secretary, was said to be on McCain’s short list, and the only candidate who explicitly supports abortion rights.

http://elections.foxnews.com/...

It looks like your political capital keeps sliping Mr Lieberman!!!

As we all anticipate Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential pick and as we play the veep-sweaps and as some of us, state how certain choices will be great while others will be horrible.  Some have even said that some possibilities might even cause us to lessen our degrees of support for Obama; I want to make a point, using a thought exercise.  Let’s travel through an alternate history.  In this history we elected a person, who for most Kossacks, would be one of the worst possible Vice Presidents.  How would the world have changed?

The fictional Vice President I am referring to is, if you hadn’t guessed, Joe Lieberman.  In my alternate history, I am assuming that the SCOTUS allowed the Florida recount to proceed and as a result Al Gore and Joe Lieberman won the Electoral College and were sworn in January of 2001.  Okay, I think for most of us – Joe Lieberman is far worse than any of the names being mentioned this year as VP.  So if he and Al had been declared the winners in 2000, where would we be today?

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Thank you AP for giving us a good heartfelt chuckle this evening!  Fantastic.

His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.

Am I the only one who realizes that the Democrats will not have a majority come November 5, 2008-January 3, 2009? This is going to be a very tumultuous winter in DC. Lieberman will leave the Dem caucus and join the GOP (I know, like he hasn’t already). This is a pretty valid inference, since the Dems will almost certainly win at least 5 GOP seats this cycle and Holy Joe will no longer be needed and Harry Reid is then free to punish Holy Joe for his traitorous behavior on Iraq, acting as a Bush surrogate as the Homeland Security Chair, and obviously the presidential race by talking away his committee assignments. I expect Joe to bolt to the GOP right after the election, if not before, especially if McCain commits political suicide and chooses Lieberman for VP. If I can see it coming, his minions can for sure. (I will not let my face turn blue waiting for Lanny Davis to condemn Joe for becoming a GOPer)

[From the Frog Pond]

You know, Lanny Davis is right.  Sen. Ted Stevens, like all individuals under federal indictment, is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  Ted Stevens has been indicted by a grand jury for committing seven felonies.  And last Thursday, in new filings in the case, prosecutors revealed that Ted Stevens turned a $5,000 investment into a $155,000 profit through the use of an $31,000 interest-free loan that was both improper and never disclosed in his senate filings.  

Senator Lugar appeared on CNN's Face the Nation today with nothing short of honesty.  He bashed Joe Lieberman's recent statements at a campaign rally for John McCain(in regards to Obama and Georgia) as "a clearly partisan statement."  In other words, that ain't straight talk- that's some politics being played by John McCain's close friend.  Lugar definitely decided not to tow the party line.  Commenting on John McCain's position to kick Russia out of the G-8, Lugar said that's probably not a good idea.  In other words, it's probably a bad idea.

With all the love Lieberman is showing to the McCainiac these days, I say it's time to kick Lieberman out of the Democratic caucus.

In a striking blow to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, Warner Bros. has decided to move the next installment of the Harry Potter film franchise to Summer 2009. The films was slated to swoop into theaters on November 11, 2008. The change in opening dates is yet another in a string of fortunate breaks for the McCain campaign.

McCain's VP running mate will not be Joe Lieberman for the following reasons....