quote[Six years ago, then-vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman was facing the debate of his political career against Republican Dick Cheney on national television.
Many observers say the stakes will be just as high at 7 p.m. Thursday on WVIT Channel 30, when the long-time Democratic senator is scheduled to debate cable entrepreneur Ned Lamont, a former Greenwich selectman, because of the momentum Lamont's anti-Iraq war candidacy has gained.
"The fact Lieberman feels he has to debate him is a big victory already," said professor Don Greenberg, chairman of Fairfield University's political science department. "Lieberman has to convince Democrats they really can't afford to switch horses."
"He really is in a situation where he has to debate," said Gary Rose, chairman of the history and political science department at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield. "This is his way of really thwarting or attempting to thwart the roll Lamont is on. . . . To remain quiet would only give Lamont more opportunity to define him."]
Ooh, I can't wait!
Monday, July 03, 2006
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