feeling like a fool ..."

Everybody sing!

.....Lieberman has lost it. Both used to be distinguished politicians--both now have lost it. Funny picture of him about to suck face with Bush.

we won't need him anymore and he can languish with either crappy or no committee assignments.

Chris Cillizza, that's probably not going to happen.  If you want to prove Chris Cillizza wrong, here's one Democrat you can help -- Andrew Horne for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.  Could Horne turn out to be the 2008 version of Jim Webb?  Maybe, but only if we help him raise the money he needs to compete with Mitch "Moneybags" McConnell.

Unfortunately, if you want the US Senate in Virginia to be competitive, you have to give to a Republican. ;-)

No but seriously, give Mark Warner a couple of bucks.

You seem to be suggesting that there is a hug or other inappropriate activity in the second picture, but everyone knows that McCain's arms just have a "wide stance".

in a while here at RK! :)  Thanks.

Connie and Lowell, I am sure the comment was in jest and we all agree that photo is the pits. What may not be known is due to McCain's time as a POW, he needs help in putting on a jacket. As I remember, he is also unable to raise his arms above his head.  

with McCain's literal and figurative embrace of George W. Bush, whose campaign viciously screwed McCain over in South Carolina in 2000?   Just like "Holy Joe," McCain totally sold out his principles by cozying up to Bush, that's the issue here.

My comment was meant for "arms just have a wide stance."
For what it is worth Lowell, the trashing of McCain in 2000 was what sent me as a lifelong Republican to the Dems. That photo disgusts me and frankly,l lost the respect I had for John McCain.  That being said, I still am aware of his time as a POW.  A USNA classmate of my former husband "served" as a POW with McCain. I won't vote for McCain, but I will always cut him some slack. There is more than one POW who will tell you McCain and the beatings he took is what gave them the will to make it through another day.

to the country.  I also respect the character that he displayed in that North Vietnamese prison.  But his political choices the past 7 years leave much to be desired, in my opinion.  And I speak as someone who was very enthused about McCain's message of straight talk and reform in 2000, even gave the guy money and voted for him in the Virginia Republican primary.  So much for that. :(

At this point, that seems to be more important than the candidacy itself since he is not doing so well on the trail.  All that taking the hard road Mr. Unpopular stuff  is pretty lame even for a brave soldier.  He is trying to sell something instead of sincerely address the situation we face in Iraq.

We have a growing class of over-inflated and excessively egotistical politicians out there now:

Ghouliani
Joey L.
Well, thats my start

He wants to be VP more than anything. To me, thats the #1 reason to endorse McCain. If McCain can somehow manage to pull his campaign out of the sinkhole it is in (unlikely, I think atleast 4 others would have to die, or touch a page boy) Lieberman wants to be first choice for the VP slot. I dunno how the NRC will like that, but Lieberman is the new Zell Miller. I think we should ditch him, like he ditched his Democratic roots.

It was nauseating to watch McCain hug Bush after the Bush campaign operatives spread the word in South Carolina that McCain's wife was crazy, on drugs, and that McCain had fathered an illigitimate black kid (of course the kid had to be black, to imprint on the S.C. Republican voter mentality the correct image to switch them to Bush).  At the same time the forces of Right wing radio (read: Rush) were asking what McCain might have revealed under torture to his Viet captors, how many of our secrets might have McCain given up.  Then, McCain nauseatingly gives Bush the hug, rather than the straight right to the jaw he deserved.  At that moment, any respect I had for McCain flew out the house vent as he revealed himself to be the suck-up he now is.

Now here is Joe Lieberman, the moral authority and adjudicator on and of Bill Clinton's morality, sucking up, too, to the people who are responsible for heaps of corpses, ours and Iraq's, and generations of acute pain for for the surviving families of the dead.  To men like Lieberman, toadies of a criminal administration and self-professed judges of another's morals, when morals are defined ONLY as sexual transgressions (which not only kill no one but are perpetrated by the accusors as well as the accused), I have only the most unlimited contempt.  I cannot bear to look at his hypocritical face or listen to his hypocritical trash.

However, I believe he should not be kicked out of our party but, rather, should remain in the party as a constant Quisling-like image for the voters of Connecticut to contemplate.  They should wonder at the voting choice they made, just as those swing voters who were tired of Clinton prosperity, good will, optimism and budgetary SURPLUSES voted for the Chimp in Charge rather than Al Gore.