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To: presidio9
VS.
Stuart Smally vs. Senator Coleman
Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggoneit, liberals like him.

NORM'S ACHIVEMENTS
-- Student Body President, Hofstra University
---J.D. from University of Iowa Law School, graduated with highest honors
--Campus organizer for civil rights in the 60s
--Successful prosecutor for the Minnesota Attorney General's office in the seventies
--Solicitor General of Minnesota
--Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota' capitol and second largest city, 1993-2002
--saved St. Paul taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
--received the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ highest award recognizing excellence in public-private partnership.
--engineered the return of a National Hockey League franchise to Minnesota.
--crushed Hubert Humphrey III in gubernatorial race and narrowly lost the top slot in a three way race.
--Polled ahead of two-term incumbent Paul Wellstone and THEN went on to defeat his replacement, former Vice President Walter Mondale
-- Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Investigations, an assignment once held by Harry Truman and rarely occupied by a freshman Senator.
-- Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
-- member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
--Americans for Tax Reform honored the Senator with their Hero of Taxpayer Award
--Family Research Council’s True Blue Award
--U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the Spirit of Enterprise award.
--American Chiropractic Association honored Coleman with their Health Care Leadership Award.

AL'S "ACHIEVEMENTS"
-- Was actually funny as Baggage handler #1/Bobo the Chimp in Trading Places (1983)
-- "SNL: The Lame Years". Left SNL in 1995 after his request to be the Weekend Update news anchor was promptly turned down.
-- Wrote "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot", (beloved by liberal readers) and now, ironically, weighs more than Rush and does dumber radio shows
--Wrote and Starred in "Stuart Saves His Family", now honored with the unique distinction of "crappiest film to ever be adapted from an SNL skit" ... a record that will be incredibly difficult to break
--Failed liberal radio talk show host who hosts "The O'Franken Factor" -- yuk, yuk...oh, you meant that was SUPPOSED to annoyed us, Al?

45 posted on 05/04/2004 12:11:24 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Geroge Ryan deserves a long term...without parole.)
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To: BillyBoy
Add to the list above, "Norm has a better sense of humor."
46 posted on 05/04/2004 12:16:40 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (and best of all, he's a Hawkeye.)
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