Remembering 2024’s Losses: Joe Lieberman

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Another blech day here in the land of the horse race (which is 112 days away…and yes, it has sn*wed on Kentucky Derby Day before). While we shiver and shake I’ll give you another person who passed away in 2024 that we’ll remember. I’m definitely against political posts, but this guy made history, so he’s the only politician on the alphabetical list. Joe Lieberman In 2000, Joe Lieberman became the first Jew to be nominated for Vice President of the United States. He didn’t win (you can blame that on the wooden plank running for president [Al Gore…read his book if you suffer from insomnia, it’ll cure you!]…in fact, they won the popular vote but lost the electoral college), but it broke another barrier long thought insurmountable in our country. So, this century, we’ve had a black president, a female vice president, two female presidential candidates, our second Catholic president, and a Jewish candidate. (Yes, Scar’s slave, “2000” is in the 20th century, blah blah. ) I didn’t agree with everything Lieberman did (and that’s true of every politician), but he was very willing to work independently of the Democratic Party. In fact, when he lost the Democratic primary in 2006, he ran as an independent…and was re-elected. He supported John McCain for president; and, similarly, a number of Republicans backed him in his independent senatorial campaign. He was the senator from Connecticut from 1989 until 2013, when he retired. (Extra kudos to him for actually representing the state he was born in!) Lieberman wouldn’t make it in today’s world. He was a “conservative” Democrat who wasn’t afraid to butt heads with party leaders when he felt they were wrong. We need more politicians like him. Joe Lieberman Born Joseph Isadore Lieberman, February 24, 1942, Stamford, Connecticut Died March 27, 2024, New York, New York (injuries from a fall) (age 82) Lieberman picking on himself by doing a top ten on Letterman: