Election Brings Out Angry Beaver And Joe Lieberman

A Killingly beaver summed up the national mood this week when two people waded into a river up in what they call the Quiet Corner. The beaver quietly bit them. I've spent some time around beavers. They don't usually look for trouble, but nobody's in a great mood these days.

Joe Lieberman more closely resembles the type of house cat who, at any given moment, will purr for you, scratch you or defecate on your pillow in your absence. Last week, the former Connecticut senator appeared on Fox Business Network and announced that he hadn't yet decided which presidential candidate to back.

"I may get involved as time goes on. I'm one of those people, and there are a lot of us, I think, who can't feel quite comfortable either way yet," said Lieberman, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his discovery that people pay more attention to you when you claim you haven't made up your mind.

In 1991, Lieberman burst onto the national scene with a razzle-dazzle display of fake indecisiveness about Clarence Thomas that included attacking fellow Democrats who raised questions about the Supreme Court nominee and then paradoxically voting against Thomas' confirmation so that his pro-Thomas activities would be less likely to stick to him.

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