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Lieberman's Last Stand
The Connecticut Senator's almost saintly civility may be coming back to haunt him on Iraq
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On a brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a
wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel
Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement in his
dead-heat primary campaign against the aristocratic antiwar upstart
Ned Lamont. "Sometimes you work hard, and people forget," he said,
thanking a straggly crowd of union leaders for remembering the picket
lines he'd walked over the years. "My folks were working people. I
grew up thinking that people who work deserve a fair deal. It takes
government...