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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Lieberman To Replace Nikki Haley As UN Ambassador?
Is anyone proud that Joe was a Democrat?
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 theres nothing dramatic or unusual about this.
Sacred Heart University political scientist Gary Rose says Lieberman publicly supported Trumps move of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, so hes 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
(10,252 posts)nt
doc03
(35,338 posts)doc03
(35,338 posts)2naSalit
(86,622 posts)one of bibi's besties.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Joe.. as in LIEBERMAN..?
He's as stupid as Dr Ben.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)everything Trump touches dies. You will end up all alone, a pariah, besmirched.
Do you want that?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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
(13,991 posts)this may be the best we can hope for. Unfortunately.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,991 posts)PatSeg
(47,450 posts)Better than John Bolton or Ivanka.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)still_one
(92,190 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)He'll be "manufacturing consent" and attacking everyone Israel has an issue with.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)which I guess is higher than UN ambassador
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)............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
(39,405 posts)writes the check.
Like a lot of the revolving door crowd, what he believes is immaterial if someone pays him to believe something else.