[GreatOne]

Should try to find this loser's address and send him a thank you note (there are several "Rick Kahn's" in Minnesota, so I don't know which address is the right one). Couldn't find his law office address.

Anyone?

[uncbob]

"We've all made mistakes," he said. "Can't we find it now in our hearts to forgive?"

Only regrets you have you scum is that you lost If you cared about anything but the arrogant pursuit of power you wouldn't have had that farce of a ceremony

[BuddhaBoy]

I'm game, get his address, and I will surely thank the man.

[Asclepius]

... It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics. It was a public expression of my private grief ...

Private grief my ...

[Ben Hecks]

I'm still trying to find out the identity of the ugly girl that kept screaming "We Will Win".

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"We've all made mistakes," he (Mondull) said. "Can't we find it now in our hearts to forgive (Kahn)?"

I forgive him so much I want him to make another speech on election-eve 2004.

[xfmrman]

Perhaps the Dems can get Wellstone stuffed ala Lenin (their hero). Then they can bring him out, parade him around every election. After a few years, you plop him next to Hitlery and she might start looking better...well on second thought.

[yianni]

According to Martindale's lawyer search:

Richard S. Kahn
V.P.
Shelton Corp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Hennepin Co.)

Born 1952; Admitted 1977; Carleton College, B.A.; William Mitchell College of Law, J.D.

[Snuffington]

He added, "Even though people continued to cheer, there was a lot of shifting in seats and realizing that this was something different."

LOL... yeah, right. It's all Rick's fault. They all cheered, clapped, and stomped, but they weren't responsible for it. Other speakers were just as partisan, but they weren't responsible either. Blame Rick.

That rally grew more and more partisan and less and less "memorial" as the night went on. It was planned that way, and the Democrats LOVED it at the time. They loved the fact that they hijacked every non-cable television broadcast in the state, and couldn't resist the urge to use it as a campaign commercial. They loved booing the token Republicans in attendance.

They loved it all, until they realized it had backfired.

[DuncanWaring]

...several "Rick Kahn's"...

How many in Minnetonka?

[WileyC]

"All I was talking about at the rally was that Paul was a brother to me," Kahn says in the report.

What a slip! He admits that it wasn't 'just a memorial'. It was a rally, pure and simple, and the final bit of evidence came out of his own mouth.

[William McKinley]

The rats are throwing Kahn and the Wellstone kids to the wolves to protect themselves.

I defy any of them to show any substantive difference in tone, tenor, content, or intent between Kahn's speech and that of keynote speaker Tom Harkin.

There was none.

[Johnny Gage]

We oughta send hium flowers. Like Hugh Hewitt did to Pat Leahy.

[rface]

The dimcRATS just couldn't resist pulling the corpse from the wreckage and flopping it on the stage, using the coffin as a platform and proclaiming that a "vote for the Democratics is a vote for Wellstone"

Its too bad that the last curtain call for Wellstone was a partisan political act - he should have been remembered as the humanitarian that he was.....but its too late for that.

Its also too bad that DemocraticUnderground no longer lets anyone read the forums....they now have to pay to access the Website. Its now a "subscriber only" service. Too funny!

Ashland, Missouri

[RabidBartender]

WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!


BWAHAHAHAHA.....screw sending them a note - get a copy of the 'memorial' footage on RealPlayer and send that to them followed by a clip of loud, gloating laughter.

[Billthedrill]

It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics.

Uh, Rick? It was so much about partisan politics that it energized the opposition and cost you the election. But at least it relieves us of that idiotic "that's what Wellstone would have wanted" crapola - that gent may have wanted a lot of things, but getting his boy's butt kicked wasn't one of them.

[Senator Goldwater]

The next Supreme Court will be known as the "Kahn Court".

Yet another Democrat tripping over his emotion.

[BluH2o]

There is no question the tone of the
Paul Wellstone/democ"rat" Pep Rally was a contributing factor in Mondale's defeat ... up to that point a victory for Mondale was assurred. It didn't help when MN Governor Jesse Ventura got up and left the Memorial/Pep Rally ... then voiced his outrage on local and national TV. Then to top it off, after saying he would appoint a democrat, in deference to Wellstone to fill out his Senate term, adruptly reversed himself and appointed an independent. The Paul Wellstone/democ"rat" Pep Rally was certainly a defining moment in Mondale's defeat.

[laconic]

Thank you, Mr. Kahn, for your childish, nasty speech and your boorish behavior. You elected the 51st Republican to the Senate, meaning we don't have to worry about Chafee as a potential party switcher at 50/50 taking the Senate (and a slew of conservative judges) away from us. You also may have damaged your fellow Democrats such as Jean Carnahan in other states, who only lost by 23,000 votes who may have lost because this wretched spectacle you orchestrated fired up the Republican vote nationwide (whoever heard of attendees at a MEMORIAL service being booed?)

[knuthom]

"All I was talking about at the rally was that Paul was a brother to me," Kahn says in the report. "It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics. It was a public expression of my private grief.

What a hypocrite! How can he claim it wasn't political when he has just called it a "rally"?

[Andy from Beaverton]

Couldn't have won without you!