As I watched the long hoped-for retirement speech of Joe Lieberman, I couldn't help thinking of my gratitude to Ned Lamont, the man who put an end to Lieberman's sanctimonious career.
It was that courageous man, Ned Lamont, who stood up against the war in Iraq, against Lieberman's support for numerous right-wing policies, who used his own money to run for Senate, who endured ugly attacks by the Far Right and grossly unfair treatment by our right-wing press, not least of which came from his own hometown Greenwich Time, and sparked the movement that led to the end of that war.
It was Ned Lamont whose courage and primary win emboldened Democrats across the country to stand up against the Iraq War, and who paved the way for anti-Iraq War candidate Barack Obama to win the presidency two years later. More than any other American, it was thanks to Ned Lamont that the last American combat soldier was withdrawn from Iraq last August.
Ned Lamont was savaged in the press by Dick Cheney, and right-wing talking heads like Bill O'Reilly and David Brooks. But it was Ned Lamont who exposed Joe Lieberman not only as a Neo-Con supporter, but also proved that he could be beaten, and should be defeated.
I would love to see Ned Lamont taking the oath of office on the floor of the United States Senate in January 2013. He certainly is qualified; he certainly has the guts. And he would destroy the North Carolina backwoods WWE peformer Linda McMahon. He's earned a run, and our votes.
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