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The Logic Behind Lieberman

By The Daily Dish
Aug 26 2008, 9:32 AM ET

It's half bitterness at the Lamont episode and a lazy conflation of the netroots with Obama. But let's not kid ourselves:

The real reason he’s backing McCain, Lieberman says, is because he believes in the kind of foreign policy that the Democrats don’t provide anymore: unflinching on Iraq, Iran, and Russia, and unfailingly loyal to Israel (he invokes Nixon’s line about “loading every plane” with weapons for Israel to explain what kind of president McCain will be).



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