Al Franken's Minnesota Senate Campaign Is No Joke
His campaign against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is expected to be an expensive and nasty fight
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Al Franken
At least his statements about Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are perfectly true. Now news paper in Europe would print a single line of those 2.
Regards from Frankfurt am Main
The Elaphant in the room?
What I do not hear about this race is if Al Franken is sent to the Senate it will end the GOP's monopoly and give Obama 60 seats in the Democrats favor, and a chance to unravel GOP's MISHIVA witch we find our selves in today.
I have listened to Mr. Franken when he was at Air America Radio, and found him to be on target and highly fact based in his commentary.
I think every democrat should pull for Al Franken to go to washington.
He is smart enough, and good enough, and gosh darn it people like him!
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I keep hearing about Norm and his attack adds against Al Franken yet every time there is a commercial break I see a minimum of 2 -3 adds from Fraken attacking Norm. I for one like all the attack adds as they can help she light on subjects that politicians don't want us to know about. But I think it is a problem when one politician stops the adds and another keeps going. What has become of our society when the very people we entrust to run it complain when their opponent attacks them.
Makes me wonder how well Al Franken will hold up in congress.
I don't think Al has the experience and seems a bit hypocritical for my taste.
Al himself
How come Al always does his well known trick so often...the one where he opens his mouth and disappears.
Yes it is
The very idea of Al Frankin in the U.S. Senate is a joke.
May he enjoy as much success in politics as he did as an unfunny left-wing radio hatemonger.
Third Party candidate? Are you nuts or what!?
The reason to support a 2-party system is "self-evident" -- It's the best chance we have for getting a shot at a majority.
Our family lived in Belgium for 7 years; From the sidelines as non-voting non-citizens, we watched as the Belgian citizenry formed one political party after another. Whether their issue was based on religion, linguistic differences (French vs. Flemish), sexual preference, or whatever the issue of the moment might be, Belgian voters (who, incidentally, are obliged to vote) become overwhelmed by a multitude of choices each time there's an election. That's why European governments have to form coalitions in order to govern. When we left Belgium in 1976 to return to live in the US, Francois Mitterrand had just won election as President of France for SEVEN years with only 20% of the vote. That's when it became clear why a 2-party system makes sense.
Are our memories so short that no one remembers the damage done in 2000 to the Gore campaign by that madman, Ralph Nader? That guy long ago outlived his usefulness. When he wrote "Unsafe at Any Speed", he may have put the auto industry on notice to clean up their act, but he set back the development of energy-efficient cars by almost 50 years. Here's a man who hasn't bought a new suit since college and lives like a hermit. He seems totally incapable of putting the welfare of the general population ahead of his own interests. I've never been a beliver in the self-proclaimed god of consumerism.
There were a lot of flies in the 2000 campaign ointment, including the Elian Gonzales fiasco, but those fools who bought into the Nader Gospel would have been better served if they had not wasted their vote on a born loser.
Eight years later and finally hopeful!!
Franken
hey why souldn't he run he's like all the people who want him in
they don't pay taxes and are behind in them by years
there his herro!
were ib troble when he comes in he's a hateful person
check out his back ground!
so he was a funny guy,,,,I use this very ligtly!!!!!!!!!!!!
God help us!
Coleman is a very poor excuse....
Coleman is a very poor excuse for a US Senator, this past year he lied time & again to the voters of Minnesota pretending to be independent, we all know that is a joke. Did others notice a very peculiar rotten stench that wafted over Minnesota the end of May & the 1st of June ? The smell was very strong in & around Rochester, MN when Karl Rove came to town. I thought the good people of Minnesota had more sense. I thought our Minnesota values & traditions were better than that, I even thought Minnesota Republicans were better than that, but no, the so called "Independent Republicans" met in Rochester the end of May & the first of June. They invited "The Master of Dirty Tricks Karl Rove" to speak. I find it hard to believe the leaders of the MN GOP would ask such a scum bag to speak at their Convention, how could they subject their delegates to this ? They really have become the regular down & dirty GOP, misguided & confused by the last seven plus years of the "dubya's" administration. Yes, I find it very hard to believe that the leaders of the Minnesota GOP really are very independent when they invite "Father scum bag Karl Rove" to come to speak. He has refined dirty politics to the absolutely very lowest level ever in America. After all Rove took frat brat dubya & made him president. Ron Cary head of the MN GOP has already talked of getting dirty in Coleman's attempt to be re-elected our US Senator, Coleman was elected because of an accident killing one of our very finest US Senators ever, Paul Wellstone. Coleman was hand picked by the dubya, Rove & Cheney. Had it not been for that tragic accident Coleman would have never been elected. Cary & Coleman have now taken lessons from Rove, so be very wary Minnesotans for the coming onslaught of "DIRT". Coleman will weakly plead to be "Independent", but let the record show he was in lock step with most of the dubya's policies the past five years, only retreating a little from the dubya this past year as his re-election bid became closer. I understand the stench could still be detected June 6th-8th when the Minnesota DFLer's also held their Convention in the same Rochester, MN location. A whole week after Rove was in town. It was very good the throngs of thousands of Obama supporters could hear him speak June 3rd at the Excel Center in St. Paul, Several months prior to the National Republican Convention taking place there the first part of September, because scum bag Rove might just show up again, making the place a little too uncomfortable to be near for some time to come, I think that will be a very good week to stay very far away from St. Paul or even Minnesota for that matter, just in case "Dirty Tricks Karl Rove" wanders through Minnesota again. It would be a good idea to keep Rove out of Minnesota then, because it could even hurt State Fair attendance in St. Paul. I also find it amusing the GOP has complained of not obtaining 39 million in state funding for their Convention, when we all know there will be several attending that could write a check for that amount or more. With a special time for bars closing at 4:00 AM, the delegates may be too plastered to understand what is being said anyway, but the stench will linger. I also think much of the stench will cling to Coleman.
Puff piece?
Granted, "Lateline" was not a funny show, but Franken's done plenty of quality comedic work. The "mongoloid chimp" comment also lends you some credibility as an intelligent critic of politics.
Criticize the Franken "puff pieces" when all the Norm Coleman "puff pieces" are erased from existence. Until then, my recommendation is that you keep your crass comments where they belong...deep in your own mind and away from civilized society.
Have a great day.
