“Al Franken will probably run for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.”:http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1113214687&hl=en Presumably because he’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and doggone it, people like him. This had better be his campaign slogan, by the way.
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Russell Arben Fox 02.01.07 at 11:16 pm
In an ideal world, I’d rather Garrison Keillor run, but that would require him to spend a lot of time away from his show while on the campaign, and that’s not worth it. (To say nothing of what would happen if he actually won.)
Daniel 02.02.07 at 2:15 am
it sez ‘ere that he will be running against Senator Norm Coleman, who was that gowk who got turned over by George Galloway, wasn’t he?
abb1 02.02.07 at 3:06 am
How do you top Jesse “The Body” Ventura?
Hasan Jafri 02.02.07 at 4:20 am
Al Franken’s campaign slogan should be “Mind Over Body? You Betcha!” That’s Minnesotan for “Wouldn’t you choose me rather than the ‘gowk who got turned over by George Galloway? Of course you would.”
And remember. Behind every pair of thick glasses lurks a buff mean ass body. Just you wait till Franken steps into that phone booth and takes the suit off. Damn!
Chester A. Arthur 02.02.07 at 4:24 am
3: I didn’t realize that Jesse was a bottom. Learn something new every day, I suppose.
aaron 02.02.07 at 8:26 am
For all his smarts, he completely incapable of logical reasoning. And he’s whiney… and plain old obnxious.
aaron 02.02.07 at 8:28 am
And I’m completely incapable of typing without skipping or swapping characters.
dbomp 02.02.07 at 8:28 am
Hmm. Populists Ventura, Wellstone, and Franken were all wrestlers. (Norm Coleman, not so much.) Not sure what the lesson is there.
SamChevre 02.02.07 at 8:47 am
I still think “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down/ That’s not my department,” says Werner von Braun is the better line.
norbizness 02.02.07 at 9:16 am
I always thought it would be an obscure quote from the obscure movie One More Saturday Night.
magistra 02.02.07 at 9:19 am
Or, of course, from ‘Send the Marines’:
“For might makes right,
And till they’ve seen the light,
They’ve got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
Till someone we like can be elected.”
(That’s from 1965 – so nothing’s changed in my lifetime)
SamChevre 02.02.07 at 9:52 am
“A bygone,
Has got to be a bygone,
Let’s make peace the way we did
In Stanleyville and Saigon.”
But the one that really hasn’t changed?
“All of my folks,
Hate all of your folks.
It’s American as apple pie.”
Bernard Yomtov 02.02.07 at 12:47 pm
The lasting applicability of Lehrer’s lyrics is amazing. I’m with SamChevre on Von Braun, but I also like, from Pollution:
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly,
But they don’t get far if they try.
Mickey Rooney 02.02.07 at 12:56 pm
Yes entertainers have the sheep admiring them as knowledgeable, like a 5 year old girl never considers Barbie is actually a plastic mold. Just because Hollywood Hills can convince the folks in South Central Los Ageless, to vote for their politician of ideology? I still cannot figure out why Alec Baldwin, Surandon and the modern day leaders of the down and out need a 2 million dollar security system to keep south central out. Only actors can convince people they are real. And only star struck sheep suck it up.
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