{"id":36185,"date":"2019-03-22T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36185"},"modified":"2019-03-22T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:05:56","slug":"lieberman-makes-a-case-that-mccain-would-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36185","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman makes a case that McCain would not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joe Lieberman served with John McCain in the U.S. Senate. They were of different political parties, but they were dear friends.<\/p>\n

The late Sen. McCain, a Republican, has been in the news of late, courtesy of the hideous attacks mounted by Donald Trump. Lieberman, who entered the Senate as a Democrat but then became an independent, has declared that Trump’s criticism of his friend is unconscionable.<\/p>\n

He has written an essay in defense of McCain, saying that his friend wouldn’t answer Trump directly. As McCain’s friend, Lieberman said “I will.”<\/p>\n

So he has.<\/p>\n

You can read his response\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sen. Lieberman speaks for many Americans — even those of us who didn’t cast our votes for McCain as president in 2008 — who believe the senator was a heroic warrior and a dedicated public servant.<\/p>\n

We also believe the president has been shameful in his attacks.<\/p>\n\n

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Joe Lieberman served with John McCain in the U.S. Senate. They were of different political parties, but they were dear friends. The late Sen. McCain, a Republican, has been in the news of late, courtesy of the hideous attacks mounted by Donald Trump. Lieberman, who entered the Senate as a Democrat but then became an … Continue reading Lieberman makes a case that McCain would not<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2512,2546],"class_list":["post-36185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-john-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36187,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185\/revisions\/36187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}