Joe Lieberman: truth-sayer!
By Todd Stadler · Friday, August 11, 2006 3:36pm
Since it's so much easier to focus on the meaningless minutiae of politics than it is to actually face up to the depressing reality of today's American government system, I found myself reading yet another article about Joe Lieberman's 2006 Web site.
For those of you unfamiliar with this particular political lint fleck, Joe's Web site went down on the day of the Democratic primary for his Senate seat. He claims supporters of his rival, Ned Lamont, "hacked" his site. Other people think his site couldn't handle the heavy traffic of that day, or perhaps was run by less-than-competent folks.
Apropos of nothing in particular, I'm reminded of the quote "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". Just sayin'.
Anyhow, the article I was reading contained a very important, very true quote from Lieberman.
Lieberman said the outage is hindering efforts to raise campaign money. "But of course that's the world we live in, that anybody, anywhere in the world, if able to, can hack into another site anywhere else in the world," Lieberman said Thursday while visiting Waterbury.
All egotism, selfishness, and boobery aside, Joe's right on this one. He's really right. In fact, he's not just really right — no, he's not just really, really right — he's tautologically right.
Why, did you know that anybody, anwhere in the world, if able to, can also do the following things?
- Move objects with his mind
- Cause time to flow backwards
- Eat 200 hot dogs in only five minutes
- Make Joe Lieberman realize he lost the primary and that he's not, in any meaningful sense, a Democrat anymore
Will someone please think of the children?!