The Lieberman Legacy

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast pays tribute to the life, times, and political wisdom of Joe Lieberman, who died yesterday at the age of 82. What was so special about him and why are we unlikely to see his style of politics and political interaction at work in American public life any time soon? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	A-a-furs.
0:15.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the
0:24.9	the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Thursday March 28th
0:29.4	2024. I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor
0:35.3	A Greenwald, hi Abe, hi, John.
0:38.1	And media commentary columnist Christine, hi Christine.
0:41.3	Hi, John.
0:42.3	I'm just reeling from the news yesterday afternoon of the tragic, untimely and unexpected passing of Joe Lieberman, of course 24 years
0:56.4	senator from Connecticut, vice presidential candidate in 2000 who
1:01.4	would have been a vice president but for several hundred votes in Florida and
1:08.7	a this one hurts especially because his daughter Rebecca and his son-in-law
1:16.6	Jacob are two of my very closest friends and
1:25.0	unexpected family tragedy,
1:29.0	there's much more to the story of Joe Lieberman's life and the lessons
1:37.0	that it can teach us that that will be more than enough for us to to fill a podcast with.
1:45.0	Just let's start with who he was and who he was so unexpectedly. So he was a
1:53.7	a Democratic politician from the state of Connecticut was the state
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