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FRANKEN SNUBBED FROM SPEAKING AT CONVENTION, COLEMAN FEATURED IN OBAMA NOMINATION VIDEO
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 28, 2008
While Democrats invited Al Franken to speak at the Democratic National Convention on a day his staff said he would be in Minnesota and not in Denver, Senator Coleman was featured in Senator Obama’s nomination video shown tonight before Obama’s speech at Invesco Field. This is another national embarrassment for Team Franken!
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Nice to see Democrats need the applause signs to know when to cheer.
Seriously though, Barak talks a good game. But that’s about all he’s got… talk. He’s never accomplished anything resembling what he’s talking about.
Ugh.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:55 PM
bho is a fine orator, although i think he is not at the top of his game tonight, although i suspect he will get better marks than mccain’s acceptance speech.
once the drive-bys get done going ga-ga over the speech and voters actually start analyzing he has said nothing more than platitudes again and again, mccain probably wins presidency.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:56 PM
I’d be interested if someone here could list one thing that Obama has actually done, not just talked about, that qualifies him for the presidency.
Just one.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:58 PM
he is over 35 years old.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Oh, and the fact that Oprah finds him “fascinating”, doesn’t count.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:00 PM
well, it was the best i could do. i can’t think of anything else.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:05 PM
If only the Republicans had been wise enough to nominate Tony Robbins or that OxyClean guy, then we could have had a real choice.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 PM
In cases of botched abortions, Obama voted to let babies be killed after they are born.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:09 PM
not only did he vote to kill babies, he led the fight. go to youtube and you can actually hear his arguments in the illinois senate.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:11 PM
i think bho gets a bump tomorrow and then it starts to fade back to mid 40′s. the problem is mccain has never gotten past 45 or 46% so this is definitely an election of the person “not losing” the election.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:14 PM
This is the dumbest post ever. How is it a national embarassment that Coleman appeared in Obama’s video?
As for the individual posts on this board, you are all incredible. What has John McCain done substantively more that prepares him to be president? Get shot down? Hang out in the Senate? Marry a rich chick?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Anyone catch the new Lord Faris TV commercial right after Obama finished in the break before WCCO news? I fell off the couch. Good ad nailing the New Yorker. Wonder what’s next?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Please mark PD down as the first to not be able to answer my question.
One accomplishment. That’s all I’m asking for.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:25 PM
How about his entire life story. Going from being poor to being the first black editor in chief to the Harvard law review. How about working with the poor. How about being a legislator (that’s all you have for McCain). How about the fact that he can speak. The president is ultimately a voice for the country. Personally, I’m sick of being embarrassed by having the chief statesman being incapable of speaking.
Now, how about YOU answer the question. What the hell has McCain done that uniquely qualifies him over Obama? He’s old? He’s had cancer? He was able to make nice with the wife he cheated on?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Maybe we should go straight to the collective horses’ mouths:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=f4baf1e8-aed5-49df-a657-ccda3b9e74ab
August 28th, 2008 at 10:27 PM
“Good ad nailing the New Yorker.”
Which one, Coleman or Franken?
I guess I’ll wait for Michael to post it on MDE. I’m surprised he hasn’t yet.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Ask Al which condo has more underwear in the drawer–his NY or his Mpls? Tell you alot about where he really lives.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Plymouth,
Obama said when you don’t have anything to run on you paint your opponent as someone to run from. After listening to 17 minutes of negative attacks on Senator McCain, I conclude that Obama doesn’t have anything to run on.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Plymouth Dem,
Your first paragraph translates to “I find him dreamy”. He “worked with the poor”? Seriously?
Let me ask you something. How many times did you used to try to convince people how open minded you were by claiming, “I’m not saying I always vote Democrat, I’d vote for John McCain!”
August 28th, 2008 at 10:37 PM
What’s McCain running on again? 4 more years of the last 8 years? Run with that and we’ll see how November turns out.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:42 PM
“Your first paragraph translates to “I find him dreamy—
How again is that?
Becoming the editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review is a remarkable accomplishment — to be the first black to do it, and, to it coming from a background where your family was on food stamps not only is an incredible accomplishment, it demonstrates an incredible level of raw intellect.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Please mark surly down as the first to not be able to answer his own question about McCain.
What uniquely qualifies him over Obama? The fact that he’s accumulated more houses than he can remember? The fact that he can lose his temper among his caucus? That he can ride a bus? That he’s figured out how to be on the government payroll since the age of 18?
August 28th, 2008 at 11:09 PM
McCain’s a gigolo who bought the marriage license for Wife Numero Dos while still married to Wife Numero Dumped.
He’s a cad that married into money – which is a good thing ’cause he spent all his on booze and strippers.
He’s a fine example of a candidate from the “Family Values” party; the party that has lots of families because of all the divorces they have. And McCain’s “values” have to do with the dough of the chick he married. McCain doesn’t know how many houses he owns, because most of ‘em are in his wife’s name – after all, SHE is the one with the dough.
Of all the presidential candidates the GreedOverPrinciples party foisted on the American Electorate, the only republiCon candidate that was only married once was the Mormon.
Go figure.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Hey Two Putz,
Who are you describing: John Kerry or John McCain? Must be John Kerry who traded up a wife with mental ilness for a billionairess. Must be John Kerry who doesn’t own the five houses he lives in worth $29 million. Must be John Kerry who sat next to the stage during Joe Biden’s speech and whose billionairess wife sat next to Michelle Obama the same night. Must be John Kerry who used his wife’s money to finance his presidential campaign. It’s pretty amazing what an ass you can be Two Putz.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Plymouth Dem,
If McCain is so bad, why has he been tied with Obama, or even ahead, in the road to this royal coronation? I love how you partisan hacks arrogantly make personal attacks against McCain while your candidate can’t even break 50% in the national polls. If the country was as bad as you and Zeus in his Roman Temple make it out to be, why isn’t he creaming McCain in the polls?
August 28th, 2008 at 11:49 PM
# surly Says:
August 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I’d be interested if someone here could list one thing that Obama has actually done, not just talked about, that qualifies him for the presidency.
Just one.
You said one thing and the constitutional answer is 35 and born here. The platitude answer is Got into public service to help those who are seen as the least among us. He valued that calling over financial success, and has stuck with it. Nothing in his public life shows him to be different. Now, for the purposes of this award winning blog, here’s your specific laundry list.
* Senator Obama’s successfully fought for children’s health care in Illinois.
* His success bringing Republicans and Democrats together (a huge selling point for me in general) on bills such as the one in Illinois requiring police interrogations and confessions to be videotaped.
* His leadership on ethics reform in Washington (the bill that lobbyists and special interests are complaining about right now has his name on it).
* His bill to make the federal budget far more transparent and accessible to Americans via the Internet — we could use that openness in Texas.
* And his vital work with Republicans to lock down nuclear weapons around the world.
Now are you going to penalize me for not listing a single thing?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:58 AM
Senator Obama fought for children’s health care in Illinois as long as the child survived the 4th trimester!
August 29th, 2008 at 6:41 AM
“He valued that calling over financial success, and has stuck with it.”
Remind me again how much Obama raked in last year?
August 29th, 2008 at 6:50 AM
Hey Chris,
Who are you describing: John Kerry or John McCain? Must be John McCain who traded up a wife with physical disabilites for a billionairess. Must be John McCain who doesn’t own the seven houses he lives in worth untold millions – one of which they “forgot” to pay property taxes on. Must be John McCain who grabs Boy Blunder so (cheney)in’ tight, Michele Bachmann is jealous. Must be John McCain who used his wife’s fortune to finance his presidential campaign.
It’s pretty amazing what a hypocritical bootlickin’ ass you can be, Chris.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:01 AM
Chris,
How again is the polling numbers at all relevant to this discussion? Are you actually arguing people like him so he must be qualified? Are you in high school voting for prom king or picking a president?
Surly tried to paint Obama as unqualified. Numerous posters have been explicit about what qualifies him and yet no one yet here has been able to point to a single reason McCain is uniquely qualified over Obama.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:53 AM
“Becoming the editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review is a remarkable accomplishment — to be the first black to do it,”
… amazingly, Barak Obama has not published works to point to as to why he achieved this honor. Me thinks the color of his skin, not the content of his ideas elevated him to this position.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:55 AM
“* His success bringing Republicans and Democrats together (a huge selling point for me in general) on bills such as the one in Illinois requiring police interrogations and confessions to be videotaped.”
He has no such track record. A block of granite could have brought republicans and democrats together on that issue.
Barak is nothing but a partisan idiot. He’d have had your vote if he was a frog, Ziggy.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
“… amazingly, Barak Obama has not published works to point to as to why he achieved this honor. Me thinks the color of his skin, not the content of his ideas elevated him to this position.”
Except publications have nothing to do with being an editor in chief of a law review. To get on the review, you need to be at the top of your class. To be selected as the EiC, you have to be quite exceptional.