Do People Actually Believe Joe Lie-berman?

I only caught about the last 10 minutes of Joe Lieberman’s speech at the Republican National Convention. In the part I did see, I heard a lot of misinformation, heard an ideology that scares the hell out of me, and heard a bitterness of one who feels they’ve been disenfranchised.

Lieberman made the statement that Senator “Obama voted to cut funding to U.S. Soldiers.” This is not true. In attempt to help bring an end to a war costing this country billions of dollars, Sen. Obama did not vote to cut funding to soldiers, he voted to cut funding to a war based upon lies in the first place. Lieberman would have you think Obama voted to cut personal finances of soldiers.

Lieberman also stated, thanks to McCain we have “thousands of troops” coming home from Iraq. What he so conveniently and disrespectfully did not mention was the thousands that have come home to grieving families.

The next thing that really caught my attention was he said John McCain would be a president that “allies would respect and our enemies would fear”. I do not want to live in a world where we live in fear, nor do I want others live in fear of us. I realize we have enemies in the world. But how many of those are enemies because of our policies of ruling by fear? We do need a president who is respected abroad, but we do not need to create fear, we need foreign relations. Our country is strong and can defend itself, but right now, our country has absolutely no reason to be in the war we are in.

Then, as he wrapped it up, Lieberman urged, no pleaded with, his audience to abandon their party (in other words there beliefs) and vote for John McCain. Keep in mind that Lieberman was the Democratic vice presidential pick eight years ago.who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and during his re-election bid in 2006, he lost the Democratic Party primary election. He is now a senator as an “Independent”. The way I see it, someone isn’t very happy with the democratic party and is making a childishly vindictive effort to spoil the election.