Joe Lieberman To Replace Nikki Haley As UN Ambassador?

[yurbud]

Is anyone proud that Joe was a Democrat?

A couple of Connecticut political scientists are not surprised by speculation in Washington that former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut is on the White House short list to replace U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
UConn political scientist Ron Schurin says it not unusual for a former U.S. senator to be appointed to the U.N.

“Henry Cabot Lodge was ambassador to the U.N. in the Eisenhower administration. And other political figures such as Adlai Stevenson during the Kennedy administration. President Truman had Senator Warren Austin, a Republican, as one of the American delegates to the U.N. in the early days. And that was a logical move toward cementing the bipartisan foreign policy. So there’s nothing dramatic or unusual about this.”

Sacred Heart University political scientist Gary Rose says Lieberman publicly supported Trump‘s move of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, so he’s not surprised that Lieberman would be considered for the U.N. job.

http://www.wnpr.org/post/joe-lieberman-replace-nikki-haley-un-ambassador

[vlyons]

1. Say, it ain't so, Joe

nt

[doc03]

3. Wow we both posted the same thing!

[doc03]

2. Say it ain't so, Joe.

[2naSalit]

4. Great,

one of bibi's besties.

[pangaia]

5. :))))))))))))))))

Joe.. as in LIEBERMAN..?





He's as stupid as Dr Ben.

[Va Lefty]

6. Just the kind of suck up Traitor don would love

[murielm99]

7. Remember, Joe,

everything Trump touches dies. You will end up all alone, a pariah, besmirched.

Do you want that?

[Hortensis]

8. Lieberman's been an apologist for a lot of militantly

nationalist trumpism and attended the opening of the new embassy in Jerusalem that Democrats weren't invited to. Where foreign policy's concerned, he reminds me of Lindsey Graham.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. Given the possible alternatives,

this may be the best we can hope for. Unfortunately.

[yurbud]

15. at least it will keep him off K Street for a while.

[Turin_C3PO]

19. Very true!

[PatSeg]

22. That's what I was thinking

Better than John Bolton or Ivanka.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Well, he is the right gender and skin tone...

[still_one]

11. As bad as Lieberman is, he won't take it if offered, and I also do not think he will be offered it

[UTUSN]

12. For the U.S.A.?!1

[Power 2 the People]

13. Please NO. Joe always puts Israel before America.

He'll be "manufacturing consent" and attacking everyone Israel has an issue with.

[yurbud]

16. more broadly, he's the neocons neocon.

[Freethinker65]

14. Grumpy old white man. Not that surprised

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. I thought it would be walrus face Bolton

[yurbud]

18. He's national security advisor or something like that

which I guess is higher than UN ambassador

[ChoppinBroccoli]

20. Just To Play Devil's Advocate.........

............I know we all have a problem with Red Joe the turncoat, but let's think about this for a minute. Even after he left the Democratic Party, he still caucused with him, didn't he? I mean, for all his faults, he was still socially liberal on most issues, wasn't he? I guess what I'm thinking of is that I'm pretty sure he actually believes in climate change, so maybe he'd get us back into the UN's good graces on that issue, and maybe repair a few bridges burned by the previous Trump sycophant. Or do you think he'd just follow his marching orders like a good soldier?

[yurbud]

21. he went from the Senate to K Street. He follows the orders of whoever

writes the check.

Like a lot of the revolving door crowd, what he believes is immaterial if someone pays him to believe something else.