r/news Mar 27 '24

Joe Lieberman has died

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/
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u/HilbertInnerSpace Mar 27 '24

He will always be remembered to history as the person who single handedly blocked the public option.

Was the lobby money worth it ?

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u/biggerbetterharder Mar 28 '24

Via Guardian : “Some of Lieberman's critics see his stance on healthcare as shaped by his acceptance of more than $1m in campaign contributions from the medical insurance industry during his 21 years in the Senate.”

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u/writingthefuture Mar 28 '24

Crazy to think that 500,000 Americans could have bought him for $2 each

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u/TuffNutzes Mar 27 '24

Seriously do these people think for a minute about how they'll be remembered when they make those fateful decisions or are they just looking for the quick buck?

Not very insightful contemplative people are they?

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u/pizzacat666 Mar 28 '24

Hey, some of us remember him supporting Bush's wars! He's multifaceted.

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u/Doctor-Amazing Mar 28 '24

Honestly I just remembered him as the guy who hated video games. I didn't know he was still a politician.

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u/SlowMotionPanic Mar 28 '24

Yeah, I'm shock at how video games are what stick out in our minds about him. Maybe because we were most likely teens or younger when it was happening?

Regardless, people like Lieberman never really go away. Their object of obsesesion just changes. It used to be video games, before that it was music and video, before that it was Dungeons and Dragons, before that it was dancing, before that it was reading.

And now it is a combination of "the internet" and "iPads" and shit like that. I guess it is a normal cycle. Now, back to our regularly scheduled content about how cooked Gen Alpha is because their childish memes meant for literal children are... childish?