Lieberman may single handedly set back the cause of good will among men 100 years. All people of faith should quell their anger by repeating - "He's just a cheap politician. He'd just a cheap politician".
The election's a tossup and Bush may loose, but at least we can take the satisfaction of being on the the side that has chosen the moral high ground.
There is one other noteworthy event that took place in Hollywood Monday night. Before Mr. Lieberman spoke, Larry David, who was executive producer of "Seinfeld," gave a speech in which he derided Gov. Bush as a "smirking" lightweight who is "making it possible for a lot of idiots like myself to actually consider running for office." Then Mr. David, who is Jewish, ridiculed the Texas governor's faith. "Like Bush," he said, "I too found Christ in my 40s. He came into my room one night, and I said: 'What, no call? You just pop in?' "
This comment was not made in good fun; it was part of a cheap, derisive attack against George W. Bush. This kind of thing ought to be denounced, and I would have hoped that Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman, who have thrust their own faith forward and embraced a message of religious tolerance in their campaign, would have been among the first to do so. Instead, Mr. Lieberman was quoted as saying after the event that he thought Mr. David was "very funny." (Yesterday, when pressed about it, Mr. Lieberman said the joke was "in bad taste" but, "on the other hand, that's freedom of expression.")
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