Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died at 82

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MSN

Former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman has died, his family announced in a statement Wednesday. He was 82.

Lieberman died Wednesday afternoon in New York with his wife, Hadassah, and other loved ones at his side after he suffered complications from a fall, his family said in the statement.


"Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest," his family said.

Lieberman was the Democratic vice presidential nominee who ran with former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

More about Joe Lieberman than you want to know. I won't miss him.

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Holy Joe Lieberman has died. Born in 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, Lieberman was the future blowhard of all blowhards. Lieberman’s father ran a liquor store and I’m surprised he didn’t later moralistically criticize this. He attended Yale and graduated with a B.A. in political science and...

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[Jimmy Higgins]

Dude was one major reason ACA was watered down as much as it was. A corporate Democrat.

 

[marc]

I first started following politics around the 2000 election. Even then, listening to him I thought he sounded more like a republican than a democrat. He was the prototype for Joe Manchin

 

[barbos]

A corporate Democrat.

And which democrat (or republican) is not corporate democrat/republican?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Bernie Sanders for one. I voted for him in the Democratic primary.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A corporate Democrat.

And which democrat (or republican) is not corporate democrat/republican?

Democrats are generally beholden to corporate interests, however, Lieberman was just one of two Democrats who pumped the brakes on the health care reform bill under Obama, wholly in the interests of the insurance industry.

 

[scombrid]

AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie...

Lieberman was extreme though, especially protecting his insurance industry ties.

 

[Derec]

Bernie Sanders for one. I voted for him in the Democratic primary.

Technically, he is not a Democrat.