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• • 11 Nov 06
  • 11:09 am

  Thanks David for a terrific article summarizing various important aspects of the Lamont campaign and what this means for the progressive movement. But I feel that Lieberman becomes even more powerful now - not necessarily as a Democrat but as a Senator - because he now holds all the cards in the Dems having a majority in the Senate and can play both sides for his advantage. We both know that he blackmailed various Senators into promising him he would keep his seniority in exchange for caucusing with them if he won and this was a major centerpiece to his campaign …

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• • 15 Nov 06
  • 2:08 pm

  During the campaign I called the Lamont office and suggested they needed to scare voters/long time supporters away from Joe and one way to do that would be by asking voters if they could trust Joe to vote against another war sold on cherry-picked intelliegence this time in Iran if crazy Bush decided to launch some kind of attack. I suggested that Joe's ties and support of Israel should not go unchallanged of course recognizing how carefully one would need to present this issue so it didn't backfire. I got the impression the Lamont campaign was too afraid of the backlash …

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