Lieberman Camp To Obama: Back Off
We've been keeping you abreast of the ongoing behind-the-scenes battle between Barack Obama and Joe Lieberman, who is fast emerging as the front man for John McCain's attacks on Obama as unfit to defend the country, and now there have been some key new developments.
Specifically, the Lieberman camp is hitting back at suggestions from the Obama camp that the Connecticut Senator has crossed the line in his assaults on his Illinois colleague.
As noted here the other day, Newsweek recently reported that Obama took Lieberman aside on the Senate floor and, according to an Obama adviser, rebuked him for his half-hearted denials of the bogus Obama-is-a-Muslim rumors. But now a Lieberman spokesperson is denying that version of events, saying it was "entirely false and fabricated."
Meanwhile, a nameless Lieberman aide told Mark Halperin the following:
"If the Obama campaign thinks they are going to intimidate Joe Lieberman with these sleazy tactics then they are sorely mistaken."
The "sleazy tactics" in question appear to be the Obama camp's leaking of details of their conversation. That the Lieberman camp is calling the Democratic nominee's campaign "sleazy" while Lieberman continues to hold plum committee seats in the majority is obviously untenable, though it remains to be seen whether anything can really be done about it in the short term.
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