# Lieberman Takes the Moral High Ground **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042 "2004-05-07T17:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042/101 "2004-05-10T16:07:35Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I think the real question is, was the stunt blue-shirt pulled off worse then doing _nothing_? Hopefully afterwards, he went off to work on more fruitful endevours, but if I have a chance to curse out Rummy, I’ll take it any day of the week as well. I think that this is exactly the point. Some people in this thread are acting as if the protestors have irredeemably damaged the anti-Rumsfeld cause or something ridiculous like that. Sure, their protest was a flash in the pan that had little practical effect and that will be quickly forgotten. But it’s not as if it did any harm. More than one person has suggested that acts like this might push some people into the arms of the conservatives, which is ridiculous. And even if it did, we should be spending our energy asking those people not to base their political decisions on such minor acts, rather than condemning the protestors. Don’t like the protests? Fine, that’s your prerogative. But your constant bleating is starting to sound depressingly like our parents: “Get a haircut. And would it kill you to put on a suit?” ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042/102 "2004-05-10T16:10:45Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Gotta agree with the sentiment–Rumsfeld needs to be fired–but I’m not sure if screaming slogans will get the job done. Hope you guys get a grass roots e-mail campaign going, too. If you have an e-petition, I’ll sign it. John Kerry has one. [http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld.php](http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld.php) ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042/103 "2004-05-10T17:17:49Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I agree with **wring** : protest wisely. No one is going to take standing up and screaming and shouting seriously. Hm. We had one or two folks protesting Vietnam at a rather high volume in the 60’s, dint we? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042/104 "2004-05-10T17:40:36Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > Hm. We had one or two folks protesting Vietnam at a rather high volume in the 60’s, dint we? Actually, I’d say the way the media reported on Vietnam had more to do with it than the protests. It was slightly before my time (born in 1971) but I get the impression that Middle America considered the protestors to be dirty hippies and cowards more than courageous fighters-for-truth. Personally, I believe the recent (past 15 years or so) media celebration of the “heroic struggle to end the slaughter” on the part of the protestors is more a symptom of the typical boomer belief that their generation is the most important thing that ever happened to America rather than an objective reporting of fact. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lieberman-takes-the-moral-high-ground/244042.md?page=5)