Loading ...
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who only eight years ago was on a the Democratic ticket that lost to President George W. Bush, addressed the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Tuesday night and said that country matters over party. “When they look to Washington, all too often they do not see their leaders coming together to tackle these problems,” Lieberman said of a scared electorate. “Instead they see Democrats and Republicans fighting each other, rather than fighting for the American people. Our founding fathers foresaw the danger of this kind of senseless partisanship. George Washington himself — in his Farewell Address to our country — warned that the ’spirit of party’ is ‘the worst enemy’ of our democracy and ‘enfeebles’ our government’s ability to do its job. George Washington was absolutely right. The sad truth is — today we are living through his worst nightmare, in the capital city that bears his name. And that brings me directly to why I am here tonight. What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this? The answer is simple. I’m here to support John McCain because country matters more than party.” (RNC Photo)
Tags: Joe Lieberman, John McCain
Related posts
This entry was written by and posted on September 3, 2008 at 7:14 am and filed under HPI Weekly. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
Post a comment(Latest is displayed first) or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.