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(Triple Barf Alert!!): How Cool Is Franken?
The Daily Beast ^ | July 1, 2009 | Eric Alterman

Posted on 07/01/2009 4:46:37 PM PDT by Publius804

How Cool Is Franken?

by Eric Alterman

Not only does Al Franken’s hard-fought victory give Democrats a magical 60 seats, it gives the Senate its first genuinely funny ex-comedian. Eric Alterman shares memories of his friend and former neighbor.

Senator Franken? As long as it has taken, it’s still pretty hard to believe my friend and former neighbor is due to be sworn in early next week. He’ll be “Senator Franken” to the press and the lobbyists, and “my distinguished colleague” to the rest of that esteemed body. But as for the rest of us, I think we can safely call him “Al.”

The Al Franken/Norm Coleman saga is finally over. Three million or so votes decided by a difference of approximately 300. And with a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate—including the switched-parties-for-personal-political-survival Arlen Specter, now Obama doesn’t have to play “Mr. Nice Guy” with the GOP. For if Al Franken is anything, he is a reliable vote for Barack Obama, and that, given the Republicans’ willingness to filibuster anything and everything they don’t like, is a game changer.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 111th; alterman; franken; freepun; photoshop; senate
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To: Jagdgewehr

Who is the man Franken is yelling at in the photo and why isn’t he stomping stomping his head into chowder.


41 posted on 07/01/2009 5:20:34 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Publius804

Not very.


42 posted on 07/01/2009 5:21:22 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Democrats have returned to their game of supporting totalitarian regimes. Now they're muslim.)
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To: Publius804; Brad's Gramma

Franken is a very small man.

He’s also 5’ 6” tall.


43 posted on 07/01/2009 5:26:17 PM PDT by glock rocks (... just tryin to make do...)
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To: Publius804
"Selected not elected."
44 posted on 07/01/2009 5:36:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Publius804

Franken as Senator will still be abrasive, obnoxious and not very bright and will gain no respect from his colleagues or the people of Minnesota. He will be Obama’s lapdog and will go down the drain with the rest of his party when Obama’s policies cripple the US economy.


45 posted on 07/01/2009 5:38:06 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: muawiyah; Larry Lucido
Instapundit put it best:

AL FRANKEN THOUGHT: Caligula sent a horse to the Senate. Minnesota is just sending part of the horse.

Cheers!

46 posted on 07/01/2009 5:41:25 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

We can look at Caligula and only hope.


47 posted on 07/01/2009 5:44:25 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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To: Batman11

This morning Drudge report had a pic of Franken, A pic of Sharpton grind dancing, a pic of Obama making with the stinkeye and a pic of troops withdrawing in Iraq, and for the first time since Carter I was ashamed to be an American.


48 posted on 07/01/2009 5:52:32 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: glock rocks
He’s [Franken} also 5’ 6” tall."

He's THAT tall? Wow.

Minnesota: Home of Paul Bunyan (25' Tall) and Al Franken (5'6" Tall).

They must be trying to atone for past extremities.

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49 posted on 07/01/2009 5:54:24 PM PDT by maclogo (Think Logically ((It really ticks off the Liberals))
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To: maclogo

He’s [Franken} also 5’ 6” tall.”
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Paul Wellstone- Part II


50 posted on 07/01/2009 6:04:44 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (A woman will be the next President; I hope it's Palin instead of HRC.)
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To: Publius804

Well, we know he’s too cool to pay the Socialist Security taxes he deducted from his employees’ paychecks at Dead Air America.


51 posted on 07/01/2009 6:08:28 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
Notice how the really sane ones show off in these.


52 posted on 07/01/2009 6:22:11 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Communism + Hezbollah + Al Qaeda + Obama + StoneAge = CHAOS)
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To: John123
America! What a country! Even a crappy comedian and failed radio broadcaster can become a Senator...

He'll fit right in with all the other corrupt politicians..

53 posted on 07/01/2009 6:29:04 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Publius804

54 posted on 07/01/2009 6:49:34 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
I wish I could laugh, but seeing this picture of that disgusting degenerate turns my stomach and makes me cringe.

Besides being a degenerate, he stole the election in Minnesota in the most flagrant and defiant way imaginable. Third world countries aren't as obscene when their despots steal elections as Franken was in stealing the election in Minnesota. And since the media keeps this under wraps, you won't hear much protest from the public, either.

Perhaps we have witnessed a taste of what is going to happen in 2012. Obama won't let power slip out of his creepy hands easily - he is the type who would break every rule in the book to keep power.

55 posted on 07/01/2009 6:55:39 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

This little turd only did one successful thing in his life:he wrote a book where the first two words were Rush Limbaugh.


56 posted on 07/01/2009 7:09:41 PM PDT by pistolpetestoys (Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend;inside a dog it's too dark to read.)
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To: pistolpetestoys

I didn’t know his book was successful. Hard to believe, lol.


57 posted on 07/01/2009 7:14:00 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: warsaw44
I believe that was Laura Ingraham’s producer. I do not remember the details about the altercation, but Franken blew a gasket and got in his face. This was in 2004, I believe.
58 posted on 07/01/2009 7:16:40 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.)
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To: Publius804

where is his picture in a diaper....that’s what coleman should have used every day.


59 posted on 07/01/2009 7:26:24 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
Some people are easily amused by just about anything:


60 posted on 07/01/2009 7:37:27 PM PDT by mikrofon (Al 2-gether now)
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