18 years is a lifetime - just ask any of the teenage recruits in the Iraq war that Joe supports. So it's not surprising that Lieberman has done a lot of good things in that time. What I found interesting (as a way of assessing Joe's focus) is what his campaign chooses to highlight ...something akin to a visual and numeric counterpart to the revealing "Connecticut for Lieberman" party (as opposed to "Lieberman for Connecticut").

So I clicked on Tolland to see what the Lieberman campaign people felt was significant for this Northeastern county.

Below are Joe's accomplishments, over the 18-year period, that the campaign chose to highlight for Tolland County. There, at the bottom the display, is the back button. So just these two items were deemed worthy of being highlighted.

For comparison, I checked out what Joe's campaign thought noteworthy to highlight for Fairfield County on the Connecticut Gold Coast, arguably one of the richest per capita geographical area in the entire world.

An entire page full of accomplishments deemed significant, with pictures too!

Whoa, Joe's been busy - I just had to keep scrolling.

And scrolling...

And scrolling.

But of course, Fairfield County has more people (900,775) than Tolland (147,634), so it's only natural that the campaign would highlight more accomplishments over Joe's 18-year tenure as a Senator. So I decided it would be more equitable to look at Hartford County with a population of 877,393.

Hartford County includes Hartford with an infant mortality rate of 7.6 per 1000 and a stunning 30.6% of its citizens living below poverty (2000 data). Let's see what Joe's campaign highlighted as having done for Hartford County over the past 18 years.

One event and the back button.

Conservation on the Connecticut River.

Granted, the environment is important. But clearly to someone in the Lieberman campaign, it is the single, most significant accomplishment deemed worthy of highlighting to illustrate Joe's 18 years in the Senate serving Hartford County -- which includes the city of Hartford, with almost one-third of its citizens living below poverty.

After that little excursion, I decided I needed to reread John Nicol's The Fight for a Party's Soul.