[jmaroneps37]

The title of the book about him says it all: "Al Franken is a buck toothed moron."

[Hodar]

To be a comedian, doesn't one have to be funny, or at least entertaining?

[Semper Paratus]

Wolfowitz was heard to reply with a suggestion that Franken commit a physical improbability.

Not if it included his head and an orifice.

[Quilla]

Not to mention the fact that every third word out of this moron's mouth starts with an f and ends with a k.

[Gefreiter]

As I recall, Congress authorized a large drawdown, at least among the Army in Europe to reflect the collapse of the Soviet threat. VII Corps fought the Gulf War and then went away; at one point 3ID had about 6-7 brigades as divisions were drawn down, returned to the US, or otherwise reshuffled. President Clin-ton, it seems to me, continued this policy.

But more to the immediate point of this article, if Al Franken is so damned smart, why isn't he in office?

[Flightdeck]

Clinton cut combat army divisions from 18 to 10, combat fighter wings from 24 to 12, and intelligence gathering assets by 40%, along with 800,000 combat personnel, all while assigning troops to Rwanda, Haiti, Bosnia, Somalia, under dubious circumstances to do nothing but occupy. It was LBJ's war strategy for purely political image. Clinton loathed the military (what would you expect from a draft-dodger) and succeeded in decimating US national security.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Al is a silly little man with silly little ideas and a stoopid face. Other than that he is useless.

[Mr. Bird]

He'd fail because he has no class. If you are going to argue/debate/discuss politics seriously, you must have a modicum of respect for the opposition. Limbaugh has been nothing if not respectful to individuals he encounters in person, regardless of their affiliation. He actually endured an encounter with Hillary!

[3AngelaD]

I think I remember reading that Franken also insulted Alan Colmes. Franken's problem is that he has the intellectual depth of my Yorkies, that is he has what he thinks of as convictions (but are really unexamined feelings), but no information, no sense of history and no principles.

[SamAdams76]

What ever happened to this Al Franken radio show that was supposed to be so popular? Did it ever get off the ground? I live in Boston so this would be a natural place for it. If a liberal talk show can't make it in Boston, it probably can't make it anywhere. (Conservative talk radio rules even in Boston where we have local hosts like Jay Severin, Howie Carr and David Brudnoy.)

[Taft in '52]

How about Reagan's B-1 that delivered the coup de grace in Baghdad's al-Mansur district on April 7? You may remember that President Carter almost killed the B-1, but Reagan rescued it.

[mr.pink]

Caller: Fine. OK, I’ll accept that. Now, tell me why you keep calling the current economy Bush’s economy. Isn’t it true that the dot-com bust happened under Clinton? Isn’t it true that the technology bust happened under Clinton? ....If it’s Clinton’s military, why isn’t it Clinton’s economy?

....And that, my friends, is why liberals just can’t handle talk radio!

I remember quite well that during the Clinton years, when the phoney economy was booming, Dems would often ask that the GOP talking heads at least give Bubba his props for that. Most times the talking heads would reply that the only reason the economy was soaring was because the GOP controlled both houses of congress.

With control, came congressional oversight powers, which the GOP failed to use as we were all too busy getting drunk on Dr.Koop's $180 a share exlixer.

Both parties (and our individual greed as well) were complicit in the great American swindle of the 90's. The GOP attempting to dis-own any responsibility for the 90's economy is ridiculous.

[chatham]

Al Franken is an insulting jerk without an ounce of personality.
He is just a Nasty Liberal Leftist Looney without Manners.

[joesnuffy]

filthy mouthed punk...no wit..just filth...tirades...false accusations...panders to twits..

[FreePaul]

Al Franken is the Liberal savior as a talk host. He's the best they have. That's why they are in such a snit. Wouldn't you be if Al Franken was the best you could come up with?

[wayoverontheright]

The people of Kuwait City are glad it wasn't Clinton's military. Clinton's military had mothballed the anti-missile system which, after the program was reinstated under Bush, proceeded to shoot down all but one Iraqi missile fired at them.

[mabelkitty]

And record enlistments right after 9/11, and record applications at the FBI right after 9/11.

[wayoverontheright]

A liberal talk show would not include callers. Their ideas are so lofty that the little people would have to be "convinced".

It would be more like a Baptist preacher on the radio, callers would be a disruption to the sermon.

[Poincare]

Clinton's military was Wesley Clarke--from Waco to Serbia--and Clarke took orders from Hillary.

[NYC Republican]

I wish that the libs would face the truth. Without distortion, lies, deceipt (which many in our country unfortunately take as fact), from the libs and their media apologists, they would have nothing. That's why this will never succeed. Conservative causes can be defended with logical, moral, and level-headed arguments and facts. Liberals exist on lies/deceipt/distortion (i.e.- Bush cut Medicare when in fact it was a slowing in reduction, Hutchinon voted to cut school lunch, etc). When that doesn't have much traction, they always pull out the race card.

You can't defend the indefensible. At least, it can't be sustained for long. Thanks to the talk show hosts (Rush, Sean, even Savage to some degree, Coulter, etc), our message is getting out into the mainstream.