Wow. Al Franken is funny again:
U.S. comedian Al Franken said Wednesday he plans to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota next year in a serious attempt to improve the lot of middle-class families.
Calling himself a "comedian by trade," and not a "typical politician," Franken made the announcement on the last day of his talk show on Air America Radio.
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I'd say Norm Coleman is in serious, serious trouble and Franken is the likely winner at this point...
As a former resident of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it saddens me deeply to see them even "entertain" (sorry) the idea of electing such a schmuck.
Keep in mind, even though Minnesotans brains are frozen half the year, Mr. Franken has an ENORMOUS closet in which to dig and believe me, his opponents will find plenty, and little Al will be back writing and performing sophomoric comedy once again.
>Al Franken said Wednesday he
>plans to run for the U.S. Senate
>in Minnesota next year in a >serious attempt to improve the
>lot of middle-class families.
I think Minnesotans are going to be insulted by Franken's implication that they are so starry-eyed that ANY celebrity has an equal shot at a run on their polls.
Jesse Ventura was of a different political shade than blue-state Air America radical Franken, and besides, Minnesotans became convinced of Ventura's sincerity and aptitude for public service beyond his resume, something that is not going to happen with Franken, who only seems to be making a Hail Mary play for a liberal soapbox, a resuscitated public career, and a bigger megaphone to shout dead-horse leftist slogans at a lot of Americans, both in and out of Minnesota, who've proved they dislike him.
Franken seems to be looking to buy an expensive lottery ticket -- which might, he hopes, get him his first taste of political power, a real vote in a legislature far too big for him, and a chance for revenge at the public that roundly rejected him all these years. Probably a dream of all rejected comics.
Some liberals who get booed off the public stage just seem drawn defiantly to this kind of masochistic "nyah-nyah" curtain call after they've already been tarred and feathered. It's as if they have a burning obsession to be run out of town on the rail too. I wonder if this is what masochism looks like.
Bill Clinton was elected twice because Christians slept! I suppose that some of the same people who voted for B.C. would vote for a not so funny man!