Joe Lieberman After Being Asked If Obama Is A Marxist: “That’s A Good Question”
Here’s Obama being asked by Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano if Obama is a Marxist:
NAPOLITANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?
LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he’s obviously very smart and he’s a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t…I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.
He walks it back a bit, but not all the way.
I know it’s fashionable on the left these days to hate Lieberman, despite the fact that on all issues but national defense he is a consummate liberal, but you’ve got to admit. When a liberal like Lieberman says you’re to the left of the mainstream you’re really to the left.
