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October 21, 2003

 

Lieberman's Woes

Inside Joe Lieberman's Kamikaze Campaign
Day of the Spoiler
by Rick Perlstein
October 22 - 28, 2003

The listbot at meetup.com, the commercial site whose clever software facilitates face-to-face gatherings between Web surfers of like interest, sent me a forlorn little e-mail the other day.

"Congratulations on a successful National Lieberman in 2004 Meetup last week! See photos from every city," it read, giving a link. Click HREF="http://www.lieberman2004.meetup.com/photos"> lieberman2004.meetup.com/photos yourself, and you'll see the pathos: There
ain't no photos.

That's not surprising. In Chicago, where I live, there wasn't any meetup. Not enough supporters RSVP'ed to trigger the software's automated threshold. Meetup.com, in fact, has registered only 332 Joseph Lieberman fans in the entire United States of America, four in Chicago. An undercover reporter from The Village Voice…uh, me…represents one quarter of the total.

It could be considered comic, this abyss at the Lieberman grassroots. It could be, that is, if Lieberman showed any signs of going away. Instead, he's been ramping up: launching a splashy new tax plan; publishing a dowloadable campaign book, Leading With Integrity: A Fresh Start for America, and an accompanying website; kicking off a campaign tour…all just this past week. And that's not funny. Because it's not too early to predict that if the Democrats lose the presidential election next November, Lieberman will be the one to blame. That will certainly be so if he ends up becoming the nominee…in which
case the Democratic Party will be left without an activist base. ("I'll vote for Joe Lieberman absentee from whatever country I move to if he wins the nomination," as one friend of mine puts it.[P6: ]) Perversely, it might even be worse for the Democratic Party if he fails.


Posted by P6 at October 21, 2003 04:13 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2060
Comments

I forgot who said that! It was you! Thanks!

Rick


Posted by at October 23, 2003 11:50 AM 

Guilty as charged.


Posted by at October 23, 2003 01:54 PM 

For some reason your RSS feed is giving this post a date of October, 2004.


Posted by at December 31, 2003 10:53 AM 

I got two-month-old articles in the RSS feed?


Posted by at December 31, 2003 11:07 AM 

Notice the year that Mithras mentioned. Apprently you are posting from the future.


Posted by at December 31, 2003 01:38 PM 

Hey, c'mon! You promised!


Posted by at December 31, 2003 04:12 PM 

There are a number of posts (about 5) that have this future-date problem.


Posted by at January 1, 2004 04:22 PM 

I had a server problem a while back, and for a couple of hours at least the system date was off into 2004 somewhere. I fixed it in the database but the rss was out there already.


Posted by at January 1, 2004 04:35 PM 
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