Say it ain't so Joe

"I don't think he kissed me, he leaned over and gave me a hug and said 'Thank you for being a patriotic American,'"
--Joe Lieberman on George W. Bush trying to make out with him.

News just broke that Senator Joe Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic Primary to Ned Lamont. This is a stunning upset, as Lamont wasn't very well known until recently, and will probably go down in history as the first time the "netroots" influenced an election. I know he was running behind in recent polls and that his support of the Bush Administration made a lot of liberals angry, but it's still shocking that Lieberman actually lost.

Apparently, Lieberman going to run in the General Election as an Independent Democrat, but for all intents and purposes his political career is over. I'm not a great fan of Lieberman, but I respect his accomplishments as a three-term senator and as a former Vice-Presidential Candidate. I don't think I'm a good enough writer to pay proper tribute to the long and glorious 18 year political career of Sen. Lieberman, so instead I will dedicate these lyrics, words of inspiration if you will, to him. I believe the gift of song is important and can deliver one through troubling times. I don't know the man, Joseph Isador (he's not, he's a human) Lieberman, but I think he would enjoy this song tremendously.


Things just ain't the same for gangstas.
Times is changing, young niggas is aging
Becoming OG's in the game and changing,
To make way for these new names and faces, but
The strangest things can happen from rappin, when
Niggas get wrapped up in image and actin,
Niggas get capped up and wrapped in plastic,
Zipped up in bags when it happens, that's it.
I've seen em come; I've watched em go,
Watched em rise, witnessed it and watched em blow.
Watched em up high, and suddenly watched em grow.
Watched the lawsuits when they lost the dough.
Best friends and money: I lost them both.
Went, visited niggas in the hospital.
It's all the same shit all across the globe.
I just sit back and watch the show.
Dr Dre, "The Watcher"


We'll miss you Joe.