Republicans For Obama, Democrats For McCain

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Al Gore’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, Joe Lieberman, has been one of John McCain’s biggest supporters, introducing McCain at this year’s Republican convention. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s Secretary of State and the man who introduced Bush at the 2000 Republican convention, Colin Powell, comes out for Obama. Who, eight years ago, could have predicted that Al Gore’s right-hand sidekick Lieberman would be one of the biggest backers of the GOP ticket in 2008, and with Powell espousing how great the Democratic nominee is? Of course the cynic in me thinks that maybe the reason is a little petty. Powell is upset that Bush made him look like a fool in front of the world at the UN. Lieberman is upset that Democrats did not support him in his primary race against Ned Lamont in Connecticut after he came out and supported the Iraq War so strongly.