Quick post...

I'll get an in-depth post up recapping news in the past week up tomorrow sometime in the morning. While I was in Canada, I saw a lot of American flags hanging up next to the Canadian flags. Plus, food was frickin' expensive! I don't know if it had to do with the food being imported or not, but even with the exchange rate, jumbo pretzel there cost $5 in Canada.

In the mean time, State Rep. Kathy Stein has called on Jerry Lundergan to be replaced as the state chairman of the KDP.

Currently, all GOP candidates in the state are leading their opponents in the congressional races when the financial reports were last filed.

Joe Lieberman is still my candidate of choice. You should see what they wrote in the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about him.

"Remember Hubert Humphrey?" he asks a crowd old enough to remember Hubert Humphrey from before Lieberman was born.

"He was my kind of Democrat. He said we should judge a society by how it takes care of people in the first chapter of life and in the final chapter of life. That final chapter is getting longer and..."

And from there he reminds of the need to protect "the best program we ever created - Social Security"...and of the president's attempt to "limit and squeeze" the two second-best programs ever created, Medicare and Medicaid, while providing tax cuts for billionaires...intermingled with a sweet story about his own Jewish mother, the late Marcia Lieberman.

As Lieberman wraps up, the hands go up.

What is Lieberman's stand on immigration? (He's one of the original sponsors of the Kennedy/McCain bill.) What is his take on the crisis in Israel? (The Arab world wants to see Hezbollah gone and Iran marginalized.) Is he or is he not for the privatization of Social Security? (No, he does not support privatization. Yes, something needs to be done to protect Social Security.)

"What about Iraq?" one elderly gentleman asks.

Lieberman is unfazed as he patiently reiterates his position.

"My opponent would have you believe that I want our troops to stay in Iraq forever. That's not true," he says, and then proceeds to outline his stand.

Joe Lieberman might as well be sitting around a kitchen table, sipping tea with old friends for all the ease and intimacy with which he answers each question. Clearly, the three-time senator is in his element. And it isn't because here at the Hebrew Home he is among his people. It is because here at the Hebrew Home he is among people. Looking them in the eye. Talking face to face...one on one. Placing his hand on a shoulder, here. Pumping a hand, there.

I'll say it right now. Criticize me if you dare but remember, the Democratic party is the party of the big tent. Joe Lieberman is the type of Democrat we need in the U.S. Senate. People may hate him for what he said about President Clinton with the scandal but it was the right thing to do. However, there is a thing called forgiiveness. That brings me to point #2: former President Bill Clinton has decided to campaign for Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election to the U.S. Senate.

Democrats "don't agree on everything. We don't agree on Iraq," Clinton said, calling the conflict the "pink elephant in the living room."

But "the real issue is, whether you were for it or against it, what are we going to do now. And let me tell you something, no Democrat is responsible for the mistakes that have been made since the fall of Saddam Hussein that have brought us to this point."[...]

"He seems like a perfectly nice man. He's got every right to run and he's waged a vigorous campaign," the former president said.[...]

Clinton said Lieberman has long been a loyal Democratic vote on issues as diverse as organized labor and the environment.

Clinton was greeted with cheers louder than Lieberman received from the audience, and the words "Four More Years" were clearly audible in the crowd.

And he proudly recalled that Clinton first volunteered to help him in 1970, when he was running for the state legislature in his first campaign.

"I'm in a big fight here," he said more than once during the day, and the polls, the recent addition of campaign staff and the decision to seek help from Clinton were all evidence of that.

The former president wasn't the only nationally known Democrat campaigning for Lieberman as the lawmaker sought to rebuild support among Democrats who long supported him.

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, an ardent critic of the war, praised Lieberman for his stand on other issues. "If you want to meet a leader on the environment, a leader on all the difficult choice issues, you got one here," she said at a campaign stop at a candy store.

Even then, Lieberman was looking forward to Clinton's visit.

"You know, I'm in a big fight here, and I understand that ... and as our mutual friend who's coming in later today, President Clinton, always reminds us, every campaign is about the future," he said.

"I know George Bush. I've worked against George Bush. I've even run against George Bush. But Ned, I'm not George Bush," Lieberman said recently during the only debate of their campaign.

"So why don't you stop running against him and have the courage and honesty to run against me and the facts of my record," Lieberman told Lamont.

Kentucky State Treasurer Jonathan Miller was spotted recently at the DLC convention.

Kentucky state treasurer Jonathan Miller said he had used religious terms to talk about global warming in his Bible Belt state.

"This Earth is G-d's creation," said Miller. "Global warming is the great moral debate of our time."

Miller recently spoke about the fundraising plans of the party.

Democratic State Treasurer Jonathan Miller said he hasn't been told how the party plans to make up the fundraising gap.

"You always want to enter a campaign season at least on a level playing field or have more money than your political opponents," he said. "I haven't heard from anyone in the part as to whether there's a strategy to level the playing field and enter November with more in the bank."

That's all for now. Big update tomorrow.