The last bastion of a scoundrel has finally been used by one of Joe Liebermans "former aides' and spokespeople.Even though the comment in this article (
http://www.forward.com/articles/2913 Reg. required ) was taken out of context and was preceded by my pointing out that Joe Lieberman was holding events together with Sen. Brownback in front of evengelicals in which he first used the quote "America is itself a faith based initiative" it still could not possibly be misinterpreted as bigoted unless that was your only weapon to fight the truth left.
Unlike Joe Lieberman,I remember History.The Puritans came here because they were being persecuted by a Theocratic Monarchy. The lessons I learned in school were that it was the Tyranny of the majority religion that caused the puritans to escape to these shores and I'm afraid Joes comment above are encoraging this same tyranny today.
I phoned the author of the above link today to explain my displeasure with the one quote in question and she agreed the context in which it was given was not explained well.
Usually when you respond to these kind of things you add fuel to the fire to them but I want to give Joe's "former aides" and spokepeople a little background on our effort.
At any time during our effort we could have took the low road. We chose not to. Every post on our yahoo group is screened. If there is even a hint of bigotry in any comment not only is that comment disgarded but membership is denied to that person. Many people involved in our effort and even more who have signed up for our yahoo group are of the Jewish faith. We have refused to be associated with those who we consider extremist on both sides of the Israeli/Palistinian issue and have recieved nasty messages and phone calls from both sides.
Our membership is composed of LOYAL DEMOCRATS who see it as our duty to hold elected officials ACCOUNTABLE for both their votes and their rhetoric. Accusing any of us of bigotry shows just how desperate and out of touch with grass roots Democrats Joe Liebermans Corperate staff have become
Keith Crane
Owner:
http://dumpjoe.com/