Commentary: Wellstone--man of the people

United Press International ^ | 10-26-02 | By Jillian Jonas

[Mr_Peter]

One less far left liberal Senator. Cha Ching!

(unapologetic conservative)

[LibKill]

I was taught as a child not to speak evil of the dead.

Wellstone was a brilliant ....
The Senator from Minnesota was a perfect example of ...
He was not a Kommun....

Try as I might, I can't say anything good about him.

[boomop1]

This gushy crap will go on endlessly, I mourn his death, he was a man of his liberal people and now it is a cluster foxtrot in Min.

[boomop1]

OOPs: Mn.

[Puppage]

Yep. I'm with you. I guess Wellstone should have focused his attention on Beechcraft safety, rather than gun safety, no? Oh, well. Lesson learned.

[cynicom]

When any man departs this life, he can and always is replaced by another.

Senator Wellstone broke his most serious promise of all, regarding only two terms. The people believed that, but as always almost all men fall short after they have tasted the power of government. Wellstone fell way short.

[Maelstrom]

That's just it...

...he did.

As a result, the aviation small craft industry is prohibited by law from progressing technologically.

There's a lesson to be learned.

[isthisnickcool]

Amazing how well these people know someone they never met.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Thank you. I am amazed that no one in the media has yet to point out that Wellstone died senselessly because he broke his own pledge not to run for a third term.

I would like to see the same kind of panegyrics from the media the next time any hardcore conservative politician is killed in a plane crash. Wellstone was an extremist; the fact that he was a nice guy does not make him any less extreme. His policies would be disastrous for America.

I'd like to see Tom Daschle grilled on the talk shows tomorrow about why, if Wellstone was such a great champion of the people and savior of the downtrodden, the rest of the Senate Democratic caucus did not agree with him on anything???

[EODGUY]

I've seen the same phenomena when dealing with people who have led lives filled with criminal behavior.

They are eulogized as "saints-on-earth" after their death.

Amazing.

[Tacis]

Unlike some of my colleagues here, let me say a positve note about Wellstone, "may he enternally swim with his commie mentor Joe Stalin and others of that ilk in hell's burning lakes of sulpher and suffer the perpetual damnation due all those who would destroy this Republic from within."

Comrade Paulie's passing is proof, yet again, that God DOES bless America. NO AMERICAN SHOULD MOURN THE PASSING OUT WHAT WELLSTONE REPRESENTED!!!

[Rays_Dad]

"One less far left liberal Senator. Cha Ching!

(unapologetic conservative)"

Uhm yeah me too. You know why that guy would not give two terds if I died fighting to protect his country. Oh and lip service about how much this guy cared about America and its military means popo to me.

[Spiritus Gladius]

I'm really going to hate myself for saying this out loud, but....

Look, Paul Wellstone was a Jew who died on a Friday, and they still haven't removed the bodies from the crash site or positively identified him. If after three days of deification in the press he comes walking out of that tamarack swamp Sunday morning, and tells a miraculous tale of being thrown from the wreck and surviving, I won't know whether to fall at his feet and worship him or grab my Bible and run screaming.

[OldFriend]

Have you been drinking?

[Spiritus Gladius]

Not yet, but if I get one more pious eulogy for Wellstone shoved in my face I think I may start.

[SteelTrap]

I'm really going to hate myself for saying this out loud, but....

shoulda went with your gut on this one....

[Captain Shady]

Wasn't Senator Wellstone thinking of running for the Dem nomination in 2004 ? That is, before the crash.

[MissAmericanPie]

I despise Liberals as much as I do Islamic terrorists, they are cut from the same cloth, have the same mind set, and are equally destructive to freedom and the Constitution.

Wellstone never met a bomb dropped that he didn't like, or approve of, as long as it was not in defense of America and American citizens. He nodded consent and drooled like a demon over Clintons adventures in Bosnia, Somolia, asprin factories, all of it, yet voted against our self denfense against Iraq.

What are 8 dead liberals in a plane crash? A good start as far as I'm concerned.

[COBOL2Java]

A conservative office friend had been a Senate page when she was in college. She'd had quite a bit of contact with Wellstone while there, and when I told her of his death, she was very sad. "He was a very nice man...for a Communist."