Posted on 10/22/2008 1:08:05 PM PDT by presidio9
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined DFL Senate candidate Al Franken on Tuesday for a rousing rally at the University of Minnesota designed to jump-start what Franken called "a true statewide grass-roots campaign" to turn out Democrats on Election Day.
The goal, Clinton said, is to make Barack Obama president and give him a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate that includes Franken, who is waging a tough battle against Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley.
"Unless we reach 60 votes in the Senate, we won't end the Bush era," Clinton told the crowd, estimated by organizers at more than 2,000 in and around the McNamara Alumni Center on the Minneapolis campus. "Al Franken, with your help, can be our 60th vote in the United States Senate."
Clinton was the second nationally prominent Democrat to visit Minnesota in two days. On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in the Twin Cities to stump for Third Congressional District candidate Ashwin Madia.
Clinton and Franken have known each other for years, going back to Bill Clinton's election to the presidency in 1992. During the Clinton years, Franken directed a five-minute parody of the movie "Forrest Gump" starring the then-First Lady that brought down the house at the annual Gridiron Club dinner. In addition, the Clintons invited Franken and his wife to the White House to screen his 1995 movie, "Stuart Saves His Family."
The staunchly DFL crowd, warmed up by a series of luminaries that included an enthusiastic Mrs. Molin -- Franken's fourth-grade teacher made famous in an early campaign ad -- sang "Happy Birthday" to Clinton (she turns 61 on Sunday) and cheered wildly as she likened Franken's "progressive voice" to that of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, "someone Al and I still revere."
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Frankin is ia fighter alright. Only when he can jump someone from the back.
I give up - what makes a crowd a "DFL" crowd?
“Dumb F-ing Losers”
It’s obvious Clinton is going with the rat program to get a filabuster proof senate. Somehow, I thought she would have a shred of dignity and stateswomanship and call out Obama on the Acorn fraud. I guess she doesn’t mind that he probably stole the nomination from her the same as he’s trying to do to McCain.
If you research you can see that Obama clearly cheated Clinton out of the nomination. They flooded people across state lines to mob caucus sites.
ONLY If you count midget wrestling as fighting.................
She knows it, but she can’t do or say a thing about it. she’s still in deep debt with her campaign debts, and he’s holding that over her head.......
Gee, I thought he was a joke, err, a comedian.
“Gee, I thought he was a joke, err, a comedian.”
He is a joke. Never was a comedian.
The Clintons have been completely neutered by the far-left, moveon.org crowd. The only Dems that have been worth anything for that worthless party and they dumped them like they never existed. Don’t bother hoping for their help.
She materialized into a real candidate for commander-in-chief.
Her looks even improved to the point where she was a very attractive woman.
She would have handily defeated Obama if it had not been for Obama’s cooking of the early caucuses such as in Iowa.
Now she has become nothing more than a maid servant to Obama and an enabler to the degenerate Franken.
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