Talk:Joe Lieberman
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Yuck do we really have to see this guys ugly face? I vote we remove his image because it aint pleasent to look at. --Armus Aran
- I think everyone deserves a picture, no matter how unpleasant to look at. Michael Moore's picture is up, after all.
Most of the inital text from this page is from http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsite/biography.cfm?lowsrc=true
For anyone not familiar with American politics and Lieberman himself, the article as it currently reads leaves two questions unanswered:
(1) Which party does Lieberman belong to? democrat of course (Well, you could conclude this from the sentence about the changing majority, but isn't that asking too much?)
(2) When did Lieberman run for vice president?
I don't know enough about the subject, so could someone else please add these essential pieces of information? --KF 17:29 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
Page move: 64,600 (Joseph Liberman) vs. 86,400 (Joe Liberman) on google. --Jiang
- Here in good old Europe Lieberman is always referred to as "Joseph", never as "Joe" (if he is mentioned at all), so it's hard for me to understand the move. --KF 04:34, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Here in the good old US of A, he's always referred to as "Joe". It's the "Bill Clinton" argument -- use the name he's refered by. BTW, could someone expand on the upset victory in his first election? Why was it an upset? Whom was he competing against? RickK 04:53, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- In Texas he always seems to be "Joseph Lieberman," but I haven't watched too closely, so I'm not sure. Jdavidb 20:06, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Stance on violent games?
I noticed there wasn't much mention on his highly conservative stance on violence in computer/video-games, should this be worked into the article? 05:38, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Watergate and Weicher?
The Watergate scandal was 14 years before Lieberman was elected to teh Senate and was pretty much forgotten by then. Lieberman's election was made possible in part by the change in the GOP. It is true that Lieberman was seen as the more conservative of the two candidates and many conservative Republicans supported him. William F. Buckley, then editor of National Review (a leading conservative journal), even ran a joke campaign at the time called "Buckley's for Lieberman."
I was a young GOP activist in New York those days. I remember returning the local canvass on election night and when the t.v. said that Weicher had lost, people were actually happy.
I have edited the main page accordingly.
The opening words in Lieberman's article are "Jewish-American"? Whoever inserted this epithet should be ashamed. Do we label Kennedy "Irish-American" or Giuliani "Italian-American" (or either of them "Catholic-American")? As I understand it, second or third-generation Americans are spared these qualifiers.
faith
Lieberman has also faced some conflict from secular members of his own party who have questioned whether his religious values would interfere with his ability to impartially represent people of all (or no) faiths.
Why doesn't anyone ask secularists whether their lack of religious views would interfere with their ability to impartially represent religious people?