{"id":17977,"date":"2024-04-15T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/heres-what-id-like-you-all-to-remember-about-my-dear-friend-sen-joe-lieberman\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:47:46","slug":"heres-what-id-like-you-all-to-remember-about-my-dear-friend-sen-joe-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/heres-what-id-like-you-all-to-remember-about-my-dear-friend-sen-joe-lieberman\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what I\u2019d like you all to remember about my dear friend Sen Joe Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like all of Joe Lieberman\u2019s family and friends, I have been contending with the news of his sudden passing. To say it was a shock is an understatement. As I join so many in grieving his loss, I am also reflecting on his wonderful life.<\/p>\n

He was a deeply principled man, guided by faith, and grounded by family and his\u00a0sense of duty beyond the political moment. A quiet man with a witty and charming disposition, he was full of kindness and had a steely determination to make sure that we would learn\u00a0from\u00a0the mistakes of the past.<\/p>\n

To have known Joe is to understand at a base level: There is no Joe without his dear wife, Hadassah. Hadassah and Joe were a wonderful example of a loving couple who cherished each other\u2019s opinion and always had each other\u2019s back. Their children and grandchildren were his North Star.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read so many accolades since Joe\u2019s passing,\u00a0from\u00a0prominent political figures on both sides of the aisle. To see that people, in remembering his life, understood who Joe Lieberman was at his core and to hear every person eulogizing him, regardless of their political stripes, attest to Joe\u2019s character, intellect, and kind disposition has been a great comfort.<\/p>\n

As if almost mirroring the closeness of his family in his outer life, Joe brought people together.<\/p>\n

Any reasonable analysis of Joe\u2019s political record would show that he was unashamedly a social liberal. As was common in his party at the time, he was always strong on the military and believed in a robust, Scoop Jackson-Ronald Reagan foreign policy. He personally understood that the forces of evil had to be confronted early on and what happens if we don\u2019t \u2013 Hadassah\u2019s parents were Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n

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Joe Lieberman was Al Gore\u2019s running mate on the 2000 presidential ticket. He came within 537 votes in Florida of being Democratic vice president of the United States. Only a few years later, Joe was\u00a0Sen. John McCain\u2019s wingman in 2008, breaking with his party to endorse John for president.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that would happen in today\u2019s hyper-partisan environment. But it can be explained, in my view, by one event.<\/p>\n

Missing\u00a0from\u00a0the discussion of Joe\u2019s life and legacy \u2013 and what was so evident\u00a0from\u00a0our travels together \u2013 is how he was deeply affected by Sept. 11, 2001. My small contribution in honoring my dear friend is to point out how committed he was to protecting his nation and his beloved Israel by being strong in the face of evil.<\/p>\n

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He wholeheartedly supported President Bush\u2019s effort to deal with the extremist regimes in the Mideast, and to go on the offensive when it came to radical Islam.<\/p>\n

His decision to support the surge in Iraq was very unpopular among Democrats and the public at large. The Three Amigos \u2013 as me, John and Joe came to be known \u2013 fully supported President Bush\u2019s efforts as we were losing ground in Iraq.<\/p>\n

This put\u00a0Sen. Lieberman at odds with his party and a majority of Americans. But through that, Joe formed an unshakeable bond with John. And I was fortunate to have been in the presence of two real American heroes, John McCain and Joe Lieberman, who in different ways sacrificed for our country and always put the nation first above any politics.<\/p>\n

Sen. Lieberman saw a determination in\u00a0Sen. McCain to win a war that we could not afford to lose. This reinforced\u00a0Sen. McCain\u2019s belief that America has to be strong in the face of aggression, not just\u00a0from\u00a0radical Islam, but\u00a0from\u00a0bad actors like Putin and the Iranian ayatollah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Lieberman later vigorously opposed President Obama\u2019s withdrawal of forces\u00a0from\u00a0Iraq and President Biden\u2019s decision to withdraw\u00a0from\u00a0Afghanistan. Joe realized that radical Islam, left unattended, will come back. He knew that it is better to fight them over there than to fight them on our soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe also always believed the Iranian ayatollah was the Great Satan. Through his leadership of United Against Nuclear Iran, which he co-founded, he constantly reminded us how the world would change for the worse if the ayatollah had a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

Sen. Lieberman was guided by these firm principles, and they have informed my views in the\u00a0Senate. Now, the best thing I can do to honor and remember Joe is to stay in the fight.<\/p>\n

I will, to the best of my ability, continue the fight, taking on those on the Left who wish to marginalize the Jewish state and weaken us at home. With equal vigor, I will confront the isolationist wing of the Republican Party, which seems not to understand the threat we face\u00a0from\u00a0radical Islam, Putin, Iran and China, and would have us withdraw\u00a0from\u00a0the world at our own peril.<\/p>\n

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My last conversation with\u00a0Sen. Lieberman was about how impressed I was with the younger generation of Republicans and Democrats who seem to understand that The Squad is off base and that calls to retreat\u00a0from\u00a0the world do not make us safer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad I had this conversation before Joe passed. I was able to tell him that what he had accomplished and what he was continuing to do was making a difference to younger generations.<\/p>\n

What better legacy could one have as a public servant? Rest in peace, my dear Amigo. Until we\u2019re all together again.<\/p>\n\n

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