Joseph Lieberman and Al Sharpton formally begin campaigning

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What inspiring choices of potential Democratic presidential candidates!

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 24 January 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(I actually don't mind Sharpton in that I think he can inject some good issues into the early campaign.)

(Joe Lieberman as a candidate for anything on a national level is like the Democratic Party just closing up shop and saying "nevermind, just pick anyone, it doesn't matter" -- it's disgusting not only for the left but for the entire concept of a two-party system and meaningful democracy, period.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Lieberman is my archnemesis, though he doesn't yet know it and likely never will. Perhaps the only man ever to have been called out by the ADL (!) as being too ostentatiously devout.

I was proud to have voted against him in one senatorial election.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm beginning to think there's some sort of fifth column in the democratic party purposefully sabotaging it. I read last week in the New York Observer that the democrats were offered New York as a convention site before the republicans and they turned it down! "Hmmm, a chance to reclaim some authority on national security AND deny Bush the chance to capitalize on the sympathy of the American public for post-9/11 New York? No thanks! We're going to Boston, Taxachusetts!"

Lieberman's a drip. Sharpton is at least entertaining, though a bit of a demagogue. During his last mayoral campaign he drove around in a van with a tape that had "I Believe I can Fly" playing over and over again.

― JD (JND), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh, I'll prob'ly vote fer Nader AGAIN, and he'll prob'ly lose AGAIN.

I just hope they let him participate in the debates...if he runs at all, that is.

I'd kinda like to see McCain defect to Independent status and run, his age be damned!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sorry, Nick, Nader will "probably" not be elected President of the United States of America?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I totally buy that the Sharpton HQ fire was arson.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 24 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Sharpton is a very, ahem, sharp guy contrary to some people's beliefs (read an interview with him in the most recent issue of Transition for proof). He is probably amoral and certainly an opportunist, but as he stands no chance of actually being nominated, I'd say it's good that he's in the campaign to--as nabisco points out--potentially raise some difficult subjects.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 24 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

thread revive!

i don't think that i need to say this, but neither Lieberman nor Sharpton are going to win the candidacy. that said, both can cause a lot of damage -- i.e., Sharpton and racial demagoguery; Lieberman because he's basically a DINO (Democrat-speak for "Democrat-in-name-only") who is totally uninspiring as a candidate and some of whose supporters are i suspect not above a little demagoguery themselves wr2 Lieberman being Jewish (i.e., "you won't vote for Lieberman because yer an anti-Semite"). the Party can do without both of them, thankee, but i confess the other potential candidates aren't looking all that good either (i.e., Gephardt is as much of a non-starter as either Sharpton or Lieberman).

and Nader is totally out of the question. just thought i'd mention that.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 10 February 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, kerrey's not looking so hot (and the 'hey, whattya know - I'm jewish too!' move ain't reaping dividends), and edwards is hardly turning out to be the wunderkind he was painted as (though he's apparently got clinton - bill that is - working behind the scenes for him).

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 10 February 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

you might be happy to note that i'm liking Edwards more and more -- if for no other reason than he is a trial lawyer (and for that reason his nomination would be a perfect "up yours!" to bushie and his wingnut lawyer-bashing and flogging the tort deform bullshit). he isn't perfect, though, i agree and i'm open to other possibilities.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/weekinreview/09KATZ.html ; am hoping edwards gets it if only cuz I think he's the most likely to beat bush, but am slightly considering campaigning for sharpton if only cuz it'll let me get holier than thou on the naderites, plus campaigning for sharpton in the deep south seems like alot of fun, stories to tell the grandkids, etc. (will most likely be the only pickup truck with a 'sharpton in 2004' bumper sticker for example)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you comfortable with the whole "Sharpton is an asshole" aspect?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but he looks like booker from good times!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Lieberman is polling ahead of the other Democratic hopefuls, at the moment.

Maybe it is time to elect a new people.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 4 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

to be fair, from reading about the debate in today's paper Lieberman did do rather well. and he's right about one thing ... the Democrats had better get some sort of coherent foreign policy together.

that said, i'm not for Lieberman -- nor does it follow that while some sort of coherent foreign policy is needed, that it must be Lieberman's foreign policy views that should be adopted.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 4 May 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

Sharpton was a FBI informant: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/al-sharpton-764312

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 April 2014 19:23 (twelve years ago)

that's kinda crazy at the same time, I'm relieved he was just snitching on the mob (cuz fuck those guys) and not on other black activists

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:21 (twelve years ago)

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