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FRANKEN CAMPAIGN CALLS SENATE VOTE TO CONDEMN MOVEON.ORG ATTACK ON GENERAL PETREAUS “RIDICULOUS AND A WASTE OF THE SENATE’S VALUABLE TIME”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 20, 2007
"Asked how Franken would have voted, campaign spokesman Andy Barr said that Franken 'thought the resolution was ridiculous and a waste of the Senate's valuable time – which could have been better spent voting to bring the troops home.'
Both Coleman and the state's Democratic senator, Amy Klobuchar, voted for the resolution." Source: Associated Press, September 20, 2007
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Boo hoo, if Petreaus is a military man this crap should not even phase him, I don’t know why Congress should waste time on it.
Voters care about their votes on the war, not about condemning this PAC or that PAC, they hate all PACs.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:19 am
Now we have HR’s to shut up the truth?? While these very Senators are slaughtering humans with our tax dollars and kids?
Oh man. Time to shut down DC by the people, of the people, for the people. Shut them down. Arrest them. Put them away.
It is time my friends. It is time.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:51 am
Wow, I seen the loonie lefties hit this thread.
Just goes to show that the loonie lefties are lying when they say they support the troops but not the way. Petreaus is ‘a troop’, and these idiots attacked him before he even issued his report.
Notice how these same loonie lefties think it’s ok to slaughter the unborn……………..
September 21st, 2007 at 5:53 am
Do these clowns still say they “support the troops” after smearing their general like this?
September 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am
Very surprised that AK voted for this resolution. But I guess she isn’t running again for another five years.
Has anyone broken down how the donkeys voted by how far off their next election is?
September 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Of course Franken’s campaign said this… Al Franken is bought and paid for by the radical, anti-American lunatics that comprise MoveOn.org.
Bobcat and Teresa here are prime examples of the abject stupidity that dominates the Left.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:58 am
Man, I hope he gets the endorsement!
September 21st, 2007 at 8:00 am
MoveOn – a radical fringe organization of over 3 million members, built from the grassroots.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:21 am
Yes Mark, it’s a radical fringe group consisting of 3 million nut jobs. Absolute ignorant nut jobs, flailing around in their own shit.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:24 am
Btw… with over 300 million Americans, 3 million hate their country enough to join MoveOn.
That’s 1 percent… a severe minority… a fringe group… radicals… ignorant radical nuts.
Their grass roots are anchored in excrement.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:49 am
Disgusting. Truly disgusting. I also noticed that the coward B. Hussein Obama chose not to vote on this resolution. What a sally.
On the other hand, good for Amy K. – I must admit that I’m suprised she would go against the majority of Dems on this issue.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:11 am
Franken’s refusal to at least parse his disagreement with the war and a sense of respect for a 4 star general is deeply troubling.
This adds to Als already titanic arrogance. How can anyone other than a fringe lib extremist vote for this kook?
The wise choice would have been to state that General Patreaus is an honorable man who has dedicated his life to teh defense of this country and that he deserves our respect. However,….I disagree with x, y, z… Would that have been so difficult?
September 21st, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is a classic flip-flop.
I support the troops. I don’t support Patreaus.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:27 am
I can not tell you if Gen. Patreaus is honorable or not, but I can tell you his testimony did nothing to change public opinion on the war.
The President has screwed up the management of this war and told so many lies that even if Gen. Patreaus is accurate in his description nobody can really believe him.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Chauncy, can you give me an example of the “lies” the President has told?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:47 am
Yes, Chauncy, we hear your sida claim lies were told, but never actually point out any.
Clearl Chauncy is not “honorable”.
That much is easy to see.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:51 am
Mark Peterson,
I wish you guys could get your story straight. Here’s how kj, one of your fellow travelers, tried to spin MoveOn and the ad in the immediate aftermath:
“MoveOn.org is a pretty minor fringe organization that just happens to have some big donor.
make no mistaken, their numbers are small and they don’t speak for even a sizeable portion of the DFL”
Go back and read the threads. At the time, at least some of you had enough shame to realize what an outrage MoveOn’s ad was, and were doing everything possible to try to minimalize and marginalize them.
Now they’re a 3 million member juggernaut which should not be taken lightly?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:54 am
These lefty postings are truly indicative of their position on this issue becoming a disease. Its an illness that had grown in their brains like a cancer.
Unfortunately, this disease has left them without the ability to process anything objective anymore. Not that there ever was that ability for most of them.
In order to objectively process information you must first allow information in. I see the right able to do this. But deciding the Patreaus testimony is lies and puppetry before he even spoke is an example of this inability.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:45 am
It would take me probably a week to list just the Iraq war lies alone, but in the end you would just ignore them anyway like the rest of your party does on a daily basis.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I agree with half of what he said – it was a waste of time for the Senate to even bother with this.
What’s the senate going to do – repudiate every little irritating thing that gets advertised? If they did that, there’d be no time to squander my tax dollars – and you know damn well they won’t waste that opportunity.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Chauncy,
Nice juvenile dodge. If you have so much material to pick from, it shouldn’t require too much effort to come up with ONE example.
You’re not that lazy, are you?
September 21st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
(Apologies to Chauncy if he is, in fact, that lazy)
September 21st, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Chauncy you chicken shit. C’mon, we are worth a weeks work.
Just give us proof of just ONE lie!
It truely is sad Chauncy just what a mind numb liberal robot you allowed yourself to become. It cannot be a happy life when the only people you believe are not only lying to you, but filling you with nothing but negativity so you can walk around upset over things you do not know or understand.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Mike you may remember that I gave Ceresi credit for having publicly denounced moron.com’s disgraceful ad.
You may also remember that I gave him the benefit of the doubt when you suggested that he “took it back”.
Well now it seems that you were right and I was wrong.
Take a Democrat *and* scumbag lawyer at his word? What the hell *was* I thinking?
September 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Don’t worry Swiftee, Cereisi’s in good company.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, criticized MoveOn.org Monday for taking an ad out in The New York Times criticizing Gen. David Petraeus. The general is testifying before Congress today about the situation in Iraq.
“I don’t like any kind of characterizations in our politics that call into question any active duty, distinguished general,†Kerry told CNN, adding “who I think under any circumstances serves with the best interests of our country.â€
Yesterday, of course, Kerry joined 24 of his fellow Democrat “troop supporters” in voting against the resolution.
Apparently he was outraged before he wasn’t.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
You know, maybe Franken’s spokesman has a point. The Senate’s time is too valuable to be wasted on petty issues such as this.
Let’s see what the Senate Foriegn Relations Committee was up to yesterday:
“SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
To hold hearings to examine the Everglades, focusing on protecting natural treasures through international organizations”
PRIORITIES, PEOPLE!
September 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Here is a great lie.
The Italian Letter. Bush and his cronies are given the Italian letter, a letter by an italian FBI/CIA equivalent giving a briefing on how Saddam was trying to buy uranium from whichever country that was in Africa, it was a few I believe (Im doing this off the top of my head, I can look up it later in a book if you wish). Bush decides to quote this letter in his state of the union except for one thing, the letter is shown to be a counterfeit and Bush is told this prior to the speech. He doesnt give a shit, he says it anyway to scare people and get his war agenda going.
I believe there was a bit of lie about their being weapons of mass destruction too….
September 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
BVwahahaha!!! Nice try anderew, do not worry we take you for your word.
I would imagine soon you will post how you know for a fact that letter was a fake and President Bush knew that as well?
You fucking liberals are so sad it just makes me laugh!! Funny thing is when we caught your guy in a total OUT AND OUT LIE, you all suddenly claim it will not effect his work.
You Mr. Bill Clinton who WASTED thousands and thousands of tax payer dollars for what turned out to be in fact a lie! You know Andrew, a lie, when you KNOW you are not telling the truth.
What you fucking losers try to do is beat the drum that he lied without proff long enough you hope people will just believe you because they heard it enough. You know, the old “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” kind of thing. It is an old and trusted play from the liberal democRat playbook.
FACT really is you have no proof and neither do any of your liberal cronies. You hate that your legacy of presidents include Clinton, Carter, and the likes. One fail democRat president after another. Now you want to put up Hillary!
Has there ever been a more corrupt family in ploitics and how they get their donations? 
September 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Chauncy is a lier:
A Gallup poll reports that 61 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of General Petraeus, up 9 percent in just one week.
Fifty-four percent of those surveyed said they believe Petraeus’ plan for removing troops is the right pace or too quick. By contrast, only 33 percent view the withdrawal as moving too slowly.
Pew reports that nationally “57 percent of Americans who read or heard about Petraeus’ testimony approved of his recommendations for Iraq, while only 28 percent of respondents said they disapprove.
US News & World Report’s “Political Bulletin†highlighted polling that found when “[a]sked, ‘If General Petraeus asks for the troop level to remain in place for another nine months, would you approve or disapprove this proposal,’ 54% approve it; 43% disapprove. Independents track the overall response, with 53% approving the proposal and 43% disapproving it. 80% of Republicans back the idea while 67% of Democrats oppose it.â€
September 21st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Andrew,
Are you fucking serious?
“the Italian letter, a letter by an italian FBI/CIA equivalent giving a briefing on how Saddam was trying to buy uranium from whichever country that was in Africa”
“Bush decides to quote this letter in his state of the union”
When? Where? Seriously, finding the transcript of a State of the Union address is NOT THAT FUCKING DIFFICULT!
Don’t believe me?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/sotu.transcript/
(Look! It’s….Magic…or something!)
Is this what’s got you all worked into a “top of your head” lather?
“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Guess what, Andrew? The British government DID tell us that, the British government STILL STANDS by it, and following their own intelligence review (the Butler report), said the statement was “well founded”.
Additionally, the US Senate Intelligence Committee said that the US had similar information from a number of intelligence reports, a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.
The CIA said that Joe Wilson’s report to them tended to confirm the British intelligence rather than contradict it.
Both the US and British investigations MAKE CLEAR that Italian forged documents, exposed as fakes soon AFTER Bush spoke, were NOT the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA’s conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
“I can look up it later in a book if you wish”
Why don’t you do that Andrew.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
Good job Surly… in face, even Joe Wilson, who went to Nigeria, told the CIA that he found evidence that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium from that country.
… The only lies that have been told by anyone in the last 6 years have been told by Democrats and the fringe lunatics on the Left.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:30 am
And on that comment about whether General Patreaus swayed any opinions…
“A Gallup poll reports that 61 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of General Petraeus, up 9 percent in just one week.
Fifty-four percent of those surveyed said they believe Petraeus’ plan for removing troops is the right pace or too quick. By contrast, only 33 percent view the withdrawal as moving too slowly.
Pew reports that nationally “57 percent of Americans who read or heard about Petraeus’ testimony approved of his recommendations for Iraq, while only 28 percent of respondents said they disapprove.
US News & World Report’s “Political Bulletin†highlighted polling that found when “[a]sked, ‘If General Petraeus asks for the troop level to remain in place for another nine months, would you approve or disapprove this proposal,’ 54% approve it; 43% disapprove. Independents track the overall response, with 53% approving the proposal and 43% disapproving it. 80% of Republicans back the idea while 67% of Democrats oppose it.”
Indeed… it would appear that few people really agree with the defeatist, pro-Al Queda, cheese eating surrender monkeys in the Democrat party….
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
wait a second Chesnut… you’re backpedaling now…
look through various comments you made regarding MoveOn.org when the initial Ad hit… you said they were not a fringe group but merely what all of the left and Dems thought, now that you’re presented with the facts (that were there all along, that they’re only 1% of Americans), you change your story.
typical hypocrite
but at least you can admit you were wrong (or try and play it off at least)
September 24th, 2007 at 7:01 am
That’s probably true kj… The are a lunatic fringe group, that for reasons I do not understand, are driving the agenda of the Democrat party.
Maybe better to say, 1 percent of hates America enough to join MoveOn.org. But the majority of Democrats loath the country enough to sympathize with their lunatic cause.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
[...] By Michael B. Brodkorb | September 24, 2007 Senator Norm Coleman's campaign has purchased a full-page ad (click the picture for a larger version) in tomorrow's Star Tribune which busts Al Franken for calling the U.S. Senate resolution condemning MoveOn.org's attack ad on General Petraeus "ridiculous and a waste of the Senate's valuable time…" Click here to view more information on Coleman's website about the ad. I wrote about Franken's comments about the U.S. Senate resolution condemning MoveOn.org's ad eariler this week. Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed and Blogs for Norm! for more information on this developing story. [...]
September 24th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
[...] BREAKING NEWS: COLEMAN CAMPAIGN TAKES FRANKEN TO TASK FOR “RIDICULOUS” COMMENT ABOUT MOVEON.ORD AD IN FULL-PAGE NEWSPAPER AD Published September 24th, 2007 in Uncategorized. Senator Norm Coleman's campaign has purchased a full-page ad (click the picture for a larger version) in tomorrow's Star Tribune which busts Al Franken for calling the U.S. Senate resolution condemning MoveOn.org's attack ad on General Petraeus "ridiculous and a waste of the Senate's valuable time…" Click here to view more information on Coleman's website about the ad. I wrote about Franken's comments about the U.S. Senate resolution condemning MoveOn.org's ad eariler this week. Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed and Blogs for Norm! for more information on this developing story. [...]
September 24th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
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September 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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TO DEBATE AND CONDEMN A NEWSPAPER ADD.