In a policy address at the Dolan School of Business at Fairfield, U.S. Sen Joseph Lieberman touted newly passed security legislation and said the two political parties need to unite in the fight against global terrorism.
Lieberman, a three-term incumbent running for re-election as a petitioning candidate after losing the Democratic primary to Greenwhich businessman Ned Lamont, used the venue to tout legislation passed this week in the Senate that aims to reach out to the Islamic world through educational, programs.
The speech was presented Friday morning by the three student media groups on campus: The Mirror, The Ham Channel, and WVOF radio.
Mary Fetchet, who heads a non-profit group composed of familes of 9/11 victims, and whose 24-year-old son died in the attacks, introduced Lieberman, and praised him as a politician who reached across party lines to make the country a safer place.
The event was open to Fairfield students and faculty, as well as the media. Lieberman’s speech was followed by a question and answer session that was moderated by Mirror editors Ryan T. Blair and Ben Doody.
Lieberman did not mention Iraq in his speech, which lasted approximately 20 minutes. In response to a question posed by Fairfield politics professor John Orman, who briefly challenged Lieberman in the Democratic primary last spring, Lieberman said he wouldn’t be doing justice to the fight against Al Qaeda or to the war in Iraq if he discussed both in the same speech.
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