Joe Lieberman died after the fall. Former presidential candidate talks about ‘dirty campaigns’

“His beloved wife Hadassah and members of his family were with him when he left. His love for God, family and America endured throughout his life dedicated to public service,” the AP quoted the statement as saying.

Lieberman was elected to the Senate for his native Connecticut in 1989, already then he had experience in high-level state politics and as a lawyer. He retired from the Capitol after nearly a quarter century in 2013. He will be buried Friday in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut.

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Although he did not become a Republican, he was never shy about deviating from the Democratic party line, AP writes. He earned criticism from his fellow party members as early as 1998, when he became the first Democrat at the national level to publicly criticize President Bill Clinton for his extramarital affair with White House intern Monica Lewinska – the president’s behavior in a speech in the Senate, according to CNN, he called “disgraceful” and “embarrassing not only for (Clinton), but all Americans”.

In 2000, Lieberman only narrowly won the second highest post in the White House with Gore. He wanted to run for president in 2004, but withdrew early in the Democratic primaries and two years later ran for the Senate as an independent, although after the House elections he joined the Democrats, who needed his vote to maintain a narrow majority.

In the 2008 presidential election, he was a sharp critic of Barack Obama, whom he credited with rhetorical skills, but called him a “lightweight” and a politician who, as a senator, “never crossed party lines to achieve anything significant” or was “unwilling to stand up to powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party”. In the 2008 election, Lieberman supported Republican John McCain, with whom he shared a “hawkish” view of the military and national security issues, among other things, he was a strong supporter of the US war effort in Iraq, and almost became his vice-presidential candidate, AP writes, but McCain then he preferred Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Many Democrats perceived Lieberman’s actions as betrayal, the former senator defended his party independence by saying that he always followed his conscience and that he always had the interests of the people he represented at heart. In 2011, a year before he left the Senate, he criticized the functioning of the US Congress in this vein in an interview with the Politico website.

“People don’t come here to be stuck in a stalemate, but to do something. Why would one spend time raising money for a campaign, trying to get elected, and all the filth that goes with modern political campaigns, when one can do nothing?” Lieberman said at the time.

On the other hand, his support for abortion rights, gay rights or environmental issues, on which he spoke in favor of environmental protection, has won him favor among progressive-oriented voters.

At the end of his life, Lieberman also intervened in the current pre-election events in the USA with his No Labels initiative, which presents itself as a response to the “anger and controversy” prevailing on the current political scene. However, the movement has not yet fielded a candidate to oppose Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump. Addressing Lieberman, his longtime colleague from the high levels of American politics, Biden said last September that he would help Trump with his actions, as his movement would take away part of his voters. A month later, Libereman wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “No Labels Won’t Help Trump.”

In 2014, Lieberman visited Prague, where, coincidentally, his wife Hadassah was born, and gave an interview to the weekly Respekt.

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