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To: jlallen who wrote (28525)	8/8/2000 6:42:11 PM
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The question of Liberman's integrity is ... complex. For instance, his moral outrage speech during impeachment, may have expressed his true feeling, but it was also calculated and tuned to ultimately save the liar: WSJ: . . . But Mr. Lieberman is best known as the first prominent Democrat to rebuke Mr. Clinton during Monica-gate. "Such behavior is not just inappropriate, it is immoral and it is harmful, for it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family, particularly to our children," he said, in a soundbite Mr. Gore hopes to see often on TV this week. We don't doubt Mr. Lieberman's sincerity. But the ironic effect of that 1998 rebuke was to help Mr. Clinton and his fellow Democrats survive the scandal. Here's how liberal Washington Post reporter Robert Kaiser described Mr. Lieberman's calculus on Feb. 13, 1999, after the Senate failed to convict Mr. Clinton: "After the elections, Lieberman was more forthcoming about the political motivation for his Sept. 3 speech. The president's August confession, he said, was a threat to the Democratic Party. 'We had worked so hard,' he said, to demonstrate that Democrats had learned 'the difference between right and wrong . . . and to reestablish the party's connection to mainstream values.' And because 'Clinton himself was at the center of this transformation, I feared that . . . we were in danger as a party."' Mr. Lieberman told Mr. Kaiser that "I don't want to be too self-inflating here," but that his rebuke had provided political cover to even the most pro-Clinton Democrats, who could say, "'I agree with Joe Lieberman,' and it seemed to help." interactive2.wsj.com