<p>Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Joe Lieberman <a title="compared" href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/30/lieberman-likens-mccain-to-jfk/" id="p8ri">compared</a> a leading presidential candidate with John F. Kennedy…71-year-old John McCain. <br id="c6ln" />

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&quot;It’s a strange turn of the road,&quot; Lieberman said, &quot;When I find among the candidates running this year that the one, in my opinion, closest to the Kennedy legacy, is John S. McCain.&quot; Lieberman compared McCain’s- and his own- fervent support for the Iraq War with JFK warning against an isolationist America. <br id="g0qh" />

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The Connecticut-Democrat-turned-Independent’s evocation of the &quot;Kennedy legacy&quot; may sound out of left field. But perhaps Lieberman knows something we don’t, given his extensive travels with the McCain campaign across the country and <a title="recent visit" href="../../../view/lieberman-the-anti" id="fhgx">recent visit</a> with McCain to Iraq. <br id="oibg" />

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McCain might be apprehensive with his good friend connecting him to a Democratic icon. But it really opens up the possibilities for comparisons.&nbsp; Is the next step to compare McCain with Lieberman’s former running mate, Al Gore?</p>