Al Franken...is this for real? - Page 6

Nirvana · 01-05-2009, 04:39 PM

He's good enough
He's smart enough
And by golly people like him!

TheMercenary · 01-05-2009, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

He's good enough
He's smart enough
And by golly people like him!

And he is a class clown and a total dick. You got him. Congrats!

Nirvana · 01-05-2009, 05:11 PM

Not in my state or yours either... I just happen to appreciate his candid point of view. I think the books he wrote made right wingers uncomfortable.

TheMercenary · 01-05-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

Not in my state or yours either... I just happen to appreciate his candid point of view. I think the books he wrote made right wingers uncomfortable.

Great reads, for comedy only. Otherwise no better than having Mad TV dictate policy. The guy is a total baffoon.

piercehawkeye45 · 01-05-2009, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Well there you have it. Franken is their man. They will get what they deserve, a class clown.

Deserve? The election might as well been between tw and UG.

TheMercenary · 01-05-2009, 06:24 PM

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Deserve? The election might as well been between tw and UG.

Franken is a total fucking idiot. The Demoncrats should be proud. They might have well just put Bush up for the position.

piercehawkeye45 · 01-05-2009, 06:28 PM

And Coleman isn't an idiot?

TheMercenary · 01-05-2009, 07:07 PM

Not in my opinion. But hey, have at it if it makes you feel better about it.

classicman · 01-05-2009, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Deserve? The election might as well been between tw and UG.

lol

richlevy · 01-05-2009, 07:30 PM

Levy's Corollary to Godwin's Law. Anyone who deliberately misspells Democrat or Republican in an attempt to score political points automatically loses the argument.

TheMercenary · 01-05-2009, 08:07 PM

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Levy's Corollary to Godwin's Law. Anyone who deliberately misspells Democrat or Republican in an attempt to score political points automatically loses the argument.

Fail. You must be a Demon-crat.

Happy Monkey · 01-06-2009, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

No question the piece was biased,

Not to mention full of factual errors.

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that was only part of the point. The other point was that the system is effed up. Its hard to believe that they can't get something which seems relatively simple done easily.

In my opinion, the system was quite transparent, and went very smoothly. One glitch was the loss of an envelope of votes, where they had envelopes "2 of 5", "3 of 5", "4 of 5", and "5 of 5", but could not find "1 of 5".

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The 133 missing ballots, from example, were in an envelope from the not-exactly-shenanigans-prone University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis that got counted late on election night, then transported to a warehouse, and seem to have gone missing in the recount. Everyone spent a day combing the place for the envelope as if they were on a CSI episode, but to no avail. "You'd love to find it," says Mark Ritchie, Minnesota's secretary of state. "Out of 3 million ballots, to have one envelope missing, you know, darn it." You know, darn it is the Minnesota equivalent of self-flagellation.

Here's how the posted editorial describes that incident:

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Last month, Mr. Franken's campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had "lost" 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge -- officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night -- the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount.

Griff · 01-06-2009, 05:01 AM

Franken, Kennedy, and Burris make me wonder how broken the democratic process is.

TheMercenary · 01-06-2009, 06:39 AM

To for us but it is the best we could muster. The Framers must have known that there would be a few kooks that would sneak in the door. I am sure they had their share.

Flint · 01-06-2009, 08:29 AM

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Franken, Kennedy, and Burris make me wonder how broken the democratic process is.

This guy Burris. He is technically correct, but, this is one of those situations where being right matters less than not making a jackass of yourself. It honestly reminds me of something I might do, just bulldoze ahead, knowing how "right" I am. I hope I don't come off like this guy.

01-05-2009, 04:39 PM	#76
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	He's good enough He's smart enough And by golly people like him! __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

01-05-2009, 05:11 PM	#78
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	Not in my state or yours either... I just happen to appreciate his candid point of view. I think the books he wrote made right wingers uncomfortable. __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

01-05-2009, 06:28 PM	#82
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	And Coleman isn't an idiot? __________________ I like my perspectives like I like my baseball caps: one size fits all.

01-05-2009, 07:07 PM	#83
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Not in my opinion. But hey, have at it if it makes you feel better about it. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-05-2009, 07:30 PM	#85
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Levy's Corollary to Godwin's Law. Anyone who deliberately misspells Democrat or Republican in an attempt to score political points automatically loses the argument. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

01-06-2009, 05:01 AM	#88
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Franken, Kennedy, and Burris make me wonder how broken the democratic process is. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-06-2009, 06:39 AM	#89
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	To for us but it is the best we could muster. The Framers must have known that there would be a few kooks that would sneak in the door. I am sure they had their share. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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