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GOP demands equal time; Wellstone aide apologizes; Ventura upset
Minneapolis Start Tribune ^ | 10/31/02 | Rochelle Olson and Bob von Sternberg

Posted on 10/31/2002 5:18:11 AM PST by randita

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said, "It would have been out of character to have a traditional, emotionless event. . . .

"This was the only way you could say goodbye to Paul Wellstone, in the style and manner in which he lived his life, with passion, with emotion, with enthusiasm."

Then you should have called it what it was--a political rally--not a memorial service.

You duped attendees and the media into believing this would be a somber event and it was a raucus partisan party. There would have been little hubbub if you'd just labeled it correctly from the start.

1 posted on 10/31/2002 5:18:11 AM PST by randita
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To: randita
I'm going to be real disappointed, if the Republicans use Wellstone's corpse as a prop like the Dimocrats did! I mean sooner, or later we need to bury the man and move on.
2 posted on 10/31/2002 5:20:29 AM PST by Destructor
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To: randita
Everyone is running away from this-- Roger Moe, Geraldine Ferraro (on FNC), Jon Corzine (last night on CNBC), the senior campaign aide, etc.

They know they screwed up big.
3 posted on 10/31/2002 5:21:47 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
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"It certainly was not an orchestrated or scripted event as some have suggested."

Lies, lies this whole thing is nothing but Lies...

This is WAR! no other way to say it!

4 posted on 10/31/2002 5:25:04 AM PST by The Mayor
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To: randita
I saw the picture of bill clintoon laughing and carrying on as if it was just another demo pep rally. It was the most disgusting display I'd ever seen. That was no memorial service.
5 posted on 10/31/2002 5:26:36 AM PST by MsLady
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To: randita
Any comments from that sleezy lawyer woose, Trent Lott, "Mr. Minority." I wish for once he would denounce the vile booing he got by the demothugs. I thought it was interesting that the democrats in planning this debacle at least dis-invited Cheney to spare him, but did not dis-invite moron Trent Lott.

I guess they thought he is used to being spit upon. What a pathetic excuse for a Senator Lott is. He is also closely linked to every vermin millionaire trial lawyer in the South, like a bad character in a John Grishem novel.

6 posted on 10/31/2002 5:28:22 AM PST by friendly
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Daschle said Lott had a flight to catch, which was confirmed by a Lott aide Wednesday.

For a day, I thought Lott may have actually developed a spine.

My mistake. He remains the gutless wonder he's always been.

7 posted on 10/31/2002 5:31:04 AM PST by NittanyLion
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Well, despite the tone of the service, I know one voter who will still be voting for Mondale -- Wellstone. I mean, when has being dead ever kept a Democrat from voting? If someone from DU read this, they would get very upset. Not because of the accusation that Democrats committ voter fraud, but because it is not PC to call the dead Democratic base dead -- they're just "vitally challenged".
8 posted on 10/31/2002 5:35:40 AM PST by jmstein7
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To: friendly
I wish for once he would denounce the vile booing he got by the demothugs

In this case, it would be best to let "others" expose the 'demothugs' for the vile, classless, disgusting people that they are.
If he were to come out and denounce it, kneejerkers would automatically come to the defence of the dems, just because he, Lott, was "attacking".

9 posted on 10/31/2002 5:35:57 AM PST by MrB
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Lott Had No Plane to Catch

Speaking of Planes is the DNC going to Pay for the Travel cost used by Military and is Someone going to Investage who called DOD Illegally

10 posted on 10/31/2002 5:38:54 AM PST by scooby321
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To: randita
..taken by surprise by some of the content of one of the addresses last night,"

Surprised??
Why would anyone be surprised at RATs acting like RATs?

I will say one thing..the Welstone kids were an embarrassment and that was a bit unsettling. But then, they're kids and RATs will use anything, do anything to gain an unfair advantage.

11 posted on 10/31/2002 5:39:05 AM PST by evad
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"It certainly was not an orchestrated or scripted event as some have suggested."

Yeah, right.

12 posted on 10/31/2002 5:40:20 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: MsLady
This whole show has CLINTON FINGERPRINTS all over it.
13 posted on 10/31/2002 5:42:50 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: NittanyLion
Do you really think he was flying commercial? It sounds much like the excuse, "I hear my mother calling me." or "my wife won't let me."
Trent Lott is sadly missing the killer instinct that Dems have in excess.
14 posted on 10/31/2002 5:44:22 AM PST by maica
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IF it hadn't been planned then why was cueball carville closeted with Wellstone's kids the day after the crash?
15 posted on 10/31/2002 5:44:49 AM PST by GailA
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To: randita
Jesse Ventura's embarrassment speaks volumes.
17 posted on 10/31/2002 5:48:48 AM PST by conservativemusician
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To: maica
Trent Lott is sadly missing the killer instinct that Dems have in excess.

He also lacks any conviction at all.

The simplest explanation could've been that Lott came to pay his respects, and did so. Once the event turned political Lott could've said he felt it no longer honored Wellstone, and so he left.

18 posted on 10/31/2002 5:49:40 AM PST by NittanyLion
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To: randita
It certainly was not an orchestrated or scripted event as some have suggested.

In other words, exploiting the dead just came naturally and spontaneously to them.

19 posted on 10/31/2002 5:49:40 AM PST by steve-b
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Everyone is running away from this-- Roger Moe, Geraldine Ferraro (on FNC), Jon Corzine (last night on CNBC), the senior campaign aide, etc.

Well, not quite "everyone"...

20 posted on 10/31/2002 5:50:25 AM PST by ErnBatavia
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