First, Joe had to step over a prostrate protester in his office to get to work:
"Would someone please, please give me some water?" whimpered the fainting Code Pink demonstrator.
"Get that damned woman out of my way!" roared the impatient Senator. "I have to give another press conference - to let everyone know that things are going beautifully in Iraq!"
Via The Hill:
By Klaus Marre
June 28, 2007
A member of the anti-war group Code Pink who had staged a hunger strike in order to force a meeting with Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) on his stance on Iran collapsed in the senator’s office Thursday.
Leslie Angeline, who had recently traveled to Iran, wanted to discuss the senator’s remarks from earlier this month that indicate he would support a limited air strike on the country.
The 50-year-old woman launched a hunger strike to get a face-to-face meeting with Lieberman but was repeatedly rebuffed, according to Code Pink. However, Lieberman's staff has met with her on the issue.
Angeline was 15 days into her hunger strike and had lived off of clear liquids, according to Code Pink member Medea Benjamin. At one time she was granted a meeting, but the face-to-face was canceled by Lieberman’s office, the group said.
Angeline is being treated for dehydration at George Washington University hospital.
Lieberman’s office could not be reached for comment.
Cliff Schecter and
Crooks and Liars have the scoop.
Then there were those other protesters he had to forge through:
On the other side of the street, 36 people using megaphones and placards passionately tried to incite a public outcry against U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman and his support of a possible Iranian air strike in the real world.
"I don't go to the movies," said Len Zimmerman, a World War II naval veteran protesting what could be three wars. "I don't even have a television. This is more important."
"I don't go to the movies," said Len Zimmerman, a World War II naval veteran protesting what could be three wars. "I don't even have a television. This is more important."
Zimmerman stood with Stanley Heller of Connecticut United for Peace; Ralph Ferrucci, the Green Party candidate for mayor; Mark Galvin of the Middle East Crisis Committee; John Murphy of Connecticut Opposes the War; Mazin Qumsiyeh, of the Palestinian American Conference; Priscilla Lynch of Code Pink Women for Peace; and Sally Joughin of People Against Injustice outside 900 Chapel St. — a place Lieberman called home until last week.
Retrieving his car from it's usual space and tossing the parking ticket to his aide,
he raced to the press conference, muttering, "Lugar, this is all your fault," Joe made it just in time.
Only when he was facing the cameras, and doing what he does best -
Lieberman Asks For Patience On Surge
Senator Joe Lieberman, reasserting himself as the most pro-war Democrat-turned-Independent-Democrat, held a high-profile press conference today in which he asked Congress and the public to have patience with the troop surge now in full swing in Iraq. He asserted that the surge has the enemy "on the run" and that he trusts the information he gets from the military. "We've got to think not about the next election but the next generation," he said.
did Joe start to feel better.