Given that the Republican Party’s symbol is an elephant, one can’t help but wonder if it was a Freudian slip, a clever double entendre, or simply an unfortunate choice of words, when Barack Obama said of Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, after Lieberman’s speech at a Democratic fund-raiser was met with a mixed reaction:
“I know that some in the party have differences with Joe. I’m going to go ahead and say it. It’s the elephant in the room. And Joe and I don’t agree on everything. But what I know is, Joe Lieberman’s a man with a good heart, with a keen intellect, who cares about the working families of America. I am absolutely certain that Connecticut’s going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the United States Senate.”
Some are less certain, as the above-linked New York Times article indicates, and Democratic primary challenger Ned Lamont intends to keep it that way. Read the whole thing.
In a related story, check out Bayou Buzz’s April Fools joke. Heh.
Barack Obama is A Good Man too; but he must have been suffering a bout of temporary jackassery :> when he pachydermized Joe Lieberman as an Elephant. :) Saint Joe is as fine a Traditional Donkey as yer evergonna Get. / And Anyways, Barack, the preferred intra-Room metaphor isn’t Elephant. It’s Guerrilla. Hola! ;}
OTOH: the linked April Fool’s piece doesn’t Qualify. April’s Fools must Needs be plausible & yet Utterly absurd. That one Is the first but Ain’t the Latter. :] IOW if you Think the CT Republican Party isn’t Thinkin’ about it, you gotta Nuther Think comin’. :)
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April 4th, 2006 at 12:53:02 am
Barack Obama is A Good Man too; but he must have been suffering a bout of temporary jackassery :> when he pachydermized Joe Lieberman as an Elephant. :) Saint Joe is as fine a Traditional Donkey as yer evergonna Get. / And Anyways, Barack, the preferred intra-Room metaphor isn’t Elephant. It’s Guerrilla. Hola! ;}
OTOH: the linked April Fool’s piece doesn’t Qualify. April’s Fools must Needs be plausible & yet Utterly absurd. That one Is the first but Ain’t the Latter. :] IOW if you Think the CT Republican Party isn’t Thinkin’ about it, you gotta Nuther Think comin’. :)