Lieberman begins running ad targeting Dean

New Lieberman ad takes swipes at Dean

By Liz Sidoti

Nov. 14, 2003  |  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, trailing his major rivals in New Hampshire, takes a few soft swipes at front-runner Howard Dean in a new television ad that began airing Friday.

"I don't think it's right to have raised a divisive symbol like the confederate flag. Or to give up on principles like limiting the amount of money in campaigns," Lieberman says in the commercial.

He doesn't name Dean, but the subject is clear. The former Vermont governor recently came under fire for saying he wanted to be the candidate of Southern whites who drive pickup trucks with the Confederate flag. Dean also rejected public financing and the accompanying spending limits during the primary.

In the political ads to date, Dean has drawn contrasts between himself and his Democratic opponents as a group, but Lieberman's commercial is the first of the presidential campaign that singles out a Democratic rival – albeit without naming names.

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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/11/14/lieb/

as a devisive symbol now?

http://manatt.net/lieberman/ads/have_raised.asx (Windows Media)

Demobrat is right… Lieberman is clearly the one using the Confederate flag in a divise manner.

"I don't think it's right to have raised a divisive symbol like the confederate flag. Or to give up on principles like limiting the amount of money in campaigns," Lieberman says in the commercial.

Fuck you Joe. How about supporting a divisive symobl like Bush and enabling the killing of 10 thousand women and children in Iraq.

and Clark, and Kerry and Gephardt, and even Edwards, but I just don't see the series of events that would have to happen to leave Lieberman with the nomination. I wonder if his campaign still has a strategy, or if they're just plodding along.