Learning from Joe Lieberman to repair the American breach

March 17th this year marks the “Yah-Zate” of Senator Joe Lieberman’s unexpected death in 2024. This is an age of Jewish tradition in which families recite mourners’ kadish prayers and light candles in memory of their loved ones.

We, who knew Joe Lieberman, continue to mourn his passing, missing out on his smile and decency. When we gather for the Memorial Service and early screenings of “Central,” a new documentary documenting his life, we are always expressing our desire to have more leaders like him in today’s harsh political environment. (The “Center” will be located in imposing cinemas across the country on March 18th and 19th.)

That longing was highlighted by the partisan atmosphere in the House due to President Donald Trump’s speeches to recent Congressional sessions. Recently, we can discuss which party or its leaders are polluting public squares, but that will defeat the purpose of claiming better action from both sides. The political disparity (the “Gulf of America” ​​that bothers us) is a few inches away from the deadlock and a small foot away from the chaos.

Joe Lieberman cannot speak on behalf of political politeness, but he has left us with plenty of examples.

My father was Sen. Joe Lieberman. His last words are what we need to hear now

When he responded democraticly to President Ronald Reagan’s last radio address in 1989, Lieberman did not abuse the opportunity to resolve his political score. “Your love for this country and your passionate dedication to freedom have affected us all,” the New Democrat senator said of the Republican president.

Rather than joining most Democrats in 1991 to oppose Saddam Hussein’s use of force following the invasion of Kuwait, Lieberman became the co-sponsor of a major Democrat in a resolution approving the first (and successful) Gulf War.

Sen. Joe Lieberman joined Sen. John McCain at the Republican National Convention on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Working across the aisles with senators like John McCain, Lieberman investigated the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks and investigated Ahlen Spector for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

He often urged Presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton to play a more active role in protecting Bosnia from Serbian invasions.

This is what I want you to remember about my dear friend Sen Joe Lieberman.

And Lieberman worked with the leaders of both parties to oppose the light letter of inappropriate content in video games, music and television shows.

President George W. Bush will speak with Senator Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton after an event in the East Room at the White House on June 17, 2003. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images)

Throughout his life, Lieberman’s defense of harmony and goodness found expression in his passionate support for civil and human rights from a trip to Mississippi to his passionate support as a student defending his leadership (and the two second half’s efforts also involved cross-party cooperation).

Many public expressions of integrity towards either the Senator’s political parties or those of existence coincided with his actions privately. The staff who worked with him over 45 years ago, through many crises and controversies (rarely not his own work), we can testify to his humor, equality and goodwill. We have never heard him speak up, even in the most tense and upheaval of the situation.

However, Joe Lieberman’s gentle attitude should not be mistaken for a Milketoast career. In the course of the above works, in many more works, he was friendly but straightforward. It’s decent, but it’s decided.

Al, Tippergore, Joe and Hadassaly Berman waved to the crowd as they arrived on August 16, 2000 for the Democratic National Convention in Burbank, California. (Bob Riha, Jr./getty Images)

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In gratitude for his faith in God and his enthusiastic religious beliefs, he had a strong moral compass pointing him in the right direction for the improvement of society. If he was rarely lacking, it was never from basic motivations or weak principles. He was, in the words of the prophet Isaiah, not the source of division, but the “repairer of violations.”

As Joe Lieberman’s leadership almost lifelong followers, we can’t help but feel that America and the world have been better if he and Al Gore succeeded in the 2000 election. But even in the wake of that enormous and extremely disappointing set-off in his life, Lieberman showed the same kind of grace and optimism that characterizes his life.

“America is a great country,” he said on Senate floor the day after Vice President Gore admitted George W. Bush. “This morning, I think we should all be grateful that this morning, here in America, we will resolve our differences with a lively election, not a Civil War.”

Senator Joe Lieberman will speak on August 17, 2022 at a panel hosted by Iran’s National Council on Resistance in Washington, D.C. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)

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“Now is the time for us all to come together in support of these America and the shared values ​​that have supported us for a long time,” he continued. “Poem sal30 assures us that a cry may remain in the night, but in the morning there is a cry of joy.”

Our sorrow over Joe Lieberman’s loss has lasted throughout the long nights of his absence from our lives and politics – nothing more than this Jarzeit, who has passed away – but we are encouraged by his stirring words and examples of Sterling, and once again we can find hope for a cry of joy.

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Jim Kennedy is a former spokesman for Joe Lieberman, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, the Clinton Foundation, Sony Pictures, Sony Corporation of America, and News Corporation. Subsack.