Lieberman Whines After Obama Kicks His Ass

When Obama buttonholed Lieberman the other day in the Senate regarding Lieberman’s attempts to tie Obama to Hamas, here is what Lieberman had to say about the event:

While a Lieberman spokesman called the conversation Wednesday "cordial and friendly" and an Obama spokesman called it "private and friendly," sources told ABC News that Obama told his colleague he had gone too far in criticizing him.

Wait a minute…call the WAAHmbulance…Joe has changed his mind:

“If the Obama campaign thinks they are going to intimidate Joe Lieberman with these sleazy tactics then they are sorely mistaken," the Lieberman aide says.

In an interview with the New York Observer, Joe denied that he was fueling the rumor that Obama was a Muslim. " “The one time that I confronted it, I was campaigning in Florida for Senator McCain," said Joe, who concluded, "[e]verything I knew said he was Christian."

How about the time he echoed the "Hamas supports Obama" smear on Fox News? And why didn’t he sign the letter with other Jewish Senators condemning Muslim smears in January?

Joe knows what he’s there for. To fuel the irrational, racist fears that Obama is a terrorist. The one thing you can say — if Joe’s bristling about "sleazy tactics," he knows from whence he speaks.

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