Schumer Is Totally Silent as Sen. Lieberman Attacks Democrats Who Don’t “Appreciate the Evil of the Enemy That Faces Us”
            Senator Schumer was totally silent as Senator Lieberman attacked his Primary opponent, Ned Lamont, yesterday saying that Lamont’s goal of removing American troops from Iraq, would “constitute a ‘victory’ for extremists,” according to an article in today’s  New York Times.
                Although his attacks were against Lamont, the message was also against Sen. Schumer, who is attacking the President almost every day.         
            “If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England.” Lieberman said. “It will strengthen them, and they will strike again.”
            The name of “Ned Lamont” could easily be changed to “Senator Schumer” in that quote.  It leaves Schumer in an awkward position and explains why he was totally silent yesterday. In addition, everyone in the New York/Connecticut area understands that the New York Times is owned by a close personal friend of Schumer, who was instrumental in his election as Senator. The Times is no longer an impartial source.
            For example, the paper quoted one of their friends, a Democratic consultant, Steve McMahon, with the following: “Senator Lieberman is sounding more and more like President Bush every day. He’s trying to demonstrate strength, but the risk is that he comes across as desperate.” Very few observers agree that Lieberman sounds “desperate.” If that were true, why would the Times be concerned?
            The Times article continued: “Mr. Lamont, who rode an antiwar message to defeat Mr. Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary on Tuesday, has called for removing frontline American troops from Iraq as early as next July.”
            It continued that Lieberman compared the present battle to the fight against Nazism and Communism in the past.
            “I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us,” Lieberman said. He called that threat “more evil, or as evil, as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet Communists we fought during the long cold war.”