Yesterday evening, a good friend of mine called after hearing a radio ad vouching for Al Franken and what he’s accomplished for Minnesota and the country. This friend, an undecided independent who is in the Minnesota National Guard and returned from Iraq not long ago asked, “what has Franken done, since he’s a citizen and not a Senator?”
Here’s one of many examples, in tonight’s new ad:
This ad also shows another example where he bridges the gap with Republicans to fight for what’s right, together. It’s this kind of ad that truly shows the kind of person Al Franken is.
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Good Ad. I think it beats all the rest. However, The economy might be a better path. To bad it will do little to save his failed campaign.
Thank you, Mr. Sunshine.
Great ad. I’m sure there will be further ads down the road, which address other issues such as the economy, Mr. Sunshine.
Nice ad!
I heard Dr. Bob on Al’s radio show a few times.
It was great that Al was able to help publicize the problem,
and provide people not only information,
but also a way to help contribute to the safety of the troops. (That had not been properly equipped)
http://www.operation-helmet.org/
http://www.operation-helmet.org/video/AlFranken-18jan06.mp3 http://www.operation-helmet.org/video/meadersfranken.mp3
One more point:
Troop safety is obviously not much of an issue with you Republicans, Mr. Sunshine, but the average Minnesotan cares quite a bit.
Patrick Black, I agree 100%,
Everybody knows Al Franken’s campaign has failed, because we Republicans say it has. Our track record proves that the things we Republicans say over and over and over again become true.
Great Job Patrick Black!
Gosh. A great ad.
I used to hear this guy call in to Al’s show occasionally.
He was a staunch Republican, but he knew good people when he saw them.
The mission to equip the troops with the helmets & liners to protect them from concussions was an important thing.
P-black… what exactly turns you guys into haters????
You don’t seem to care about the mess the country is in, what Bush has wrought - all you care about is ripping somebody else.
You don’t even seem to care about the troops you guys are always invoking. Why aren’t YOU there?
You are pathetic.
It remains a great cause and a great ad, despite the noise from the pee-nut gallery.
OK, looking back, maybe I should retract a bit of what I said. I took it to be right wing drivel.
My reaction was out of proportion. I guess you are not pathetic for what I currently read…
Nonetheless, what makes you the great decider of what a good ad IS? This goes to character.
There have been other Franken ads on which address the economy.
Ummm… Failed campaign?
Have you come back in a time machine to tell us the future?
Perhaps then you might have come back with more helmets.
Yes, a failed campaign:
Norm Coleman is very close to President Bush, and did I mention he’s a Republican incumbent? Al Franken has raised and spent millions of dollars… where has it got him? 15 points behind, 1/5 of Democrats disaffected, behind among independents, tied with women and unions. That’s not a good position for a Democratic challenger. Not to mention the fact that Republicans likely have more damaging “dirt” on Franken.
Franken’s claim that being satirist was good training: out. Iraq War: out (because of surge success). Energy independence: GOP has the upper hand with “drill here drill now.” And Franken flops all over the gas tax.
The way I see it, Franken’s in real, irrevocable trouble.
Franken’s new Washington team could have seen him… ten months ago. It’s sort of like MccCain’s campaign in that respect. — — — — — — — — — — -
If elected, Franken will be a partisan and ineffective Senator whose election would make Minnesotans look even more crazy (Ventura??).
I am willing to support Coleman over Franken because I view him as the lesser of two evils. Also because I know that when Obama is elected, Coleman’s reelection won’t matter because Dems will have majorities in Congress and control the White House.
lojasmo, further ads won’t save Franken. I look forward to your acceptance of this fact when Franken is thoroughly defeated by a Republican incumbent. Also remember, Coleman’s reelection will not be in support of Coleman, but in rejection of Franken.
Patrick Black, I agree 100%,
That is why we Republicans must continue to stalk liberal websites and tell people Franken is going to lose. That is the only way it will become true.
Great Job!
PB
15 pts?
I don’t think so.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Senate/Maps/Aug08-s.html
This poll shows 8 for Coleman and the campaign hasn’t really started. Obama will carry Minnesota by 10 or more and Franken will most certainly benefit. As details like the President’s lies leading up to the war and Coleman’s rubberstamping get revealed, Coleman’s numbers will go down. Franken is clearly the choice for the working class. If you make more then 3 million a year and if you are one of those GOP’ers who care more about your bank account then your country, then by all means, vote for Coleman. Franken is the real deal for those of us who care about out country.
I’d like to know which Democrats you are talking to… the ones I meet are happy to vote a DFL ticket from top to bottom. Because they know that the strength of a Party is in unity. Al Franken is a stalwart Democrat who teamed with Amy Klobuchar and Obama in the White House will put this country back in the right direction. They will have to work damn hard to fix what Norm Coleman and George Bush have spent years breaking… all to line the pockets of their supporters and themselves at the expense of Americans. Mr. Black all you want to do is continue a long series of mistakes, failures and foolishness by voting for Norm Coleman.
What Democrat in his right mind would NOT want to give a President Obama the support he needs from a new Democratic Senator from Minnesota?
Last poll I saw had coleman up within the MOE, and Franken up within the MOE when including leaners.
PB-
It’s obvious that you republicans don’t give a tinker’s damn about troop safety. Fortunately, most Minnesotans are not republicans.
Keep up the prognosticating, though boy. Perhaps you should consider investing heavily in the stock market.
Richard,
You’ve got to be joking…”as the president’s lies leading up to the war are exposed…”??? Richard, that’s all you and the MoveOn.org/Daily Kooks have been saying for five years. As I’ve illustrated time and time again, if Bush lied so did every Democrat in leadership from Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright to Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry who all said the same thing, even before George W. Bush said it. And Franken being the guy for the working class??? Now that’s funny. Al Franken, Harvard Educated millionaire the man of the people. Yeah right! The funny thing is that with all of your bluster and confidence about Obama, Franken, et al. why aren’t they all ten or even fifteen points ahead in the polls? If the whole country hates Bush and hates Republicans like you, lojasmo, Two Putz, Frightened, et al. why is it that Norm Coleman leads by a wide margin and Obama can’t break 50% in the polls?
And lojasmo,
I could ask you the same thing. So Republicans don’t give a tinker’s damn about troop safety??? Now that’s really choice. If Obama had his way, we would have never had the surge and God knows how many other troops would have died. Fortunately, we had leadership that believed in General Petraeus (oh that’s right, you probably know him as General Betray-us) who came up with a plan that has stabilized Iraq and led to many times fewer troop deaths than pre-surge. If most Minnesotans are not Republicans, why is it that Franken and Obama aren’t running away with the election? Could it be that most Minnesotans are sick of the negativity, the personal attacks, and the rabid anger of the far left that controls the DFL???
I don’t think Barack Obama wants anything to do with Franken. Axelrod and the crew are far too smart to connect their candidate with Franken, especially when they are trying to gain Clinton supporters.
You can disagree with me all you want, we will learn who is right on election day.
Richard, I don’t vote on party lines, I on vote for the candidate I think is best. That is usually a Democrat, but not this time.
Let me ask you all this: Look at where the Franken campaign is now. If you could go back in time and change time, would you do anything differently? Do you really think Franken was the strongest choice? It’s a rhetorical question. Franken has been a disaster for the DFL. He has torn the party apart and forced Dems and Independents to vote for Coleman! Myself included.
Chris,
The reason we are not shattering Republicans is because of the Republicans free spin based lie machine at Fox, and the fact that the corporate media will not do anything to endanger their profit, and the Republicans are their surrogates.
Just as a prime example, it is the MSM that has convinced the public, somehow, that the Oil company interests are the same as the interests of the American people. Anyone who thinks the oil companies will spend millions on drilling their new leases in order to reduce the price of their product is a complete moron who does not understand capitalism. The oil comapanies want the leases for when their current ones run out in 10 years, but they won’t even start drilling until their current stocks run out.
Only fox news and the MSM/corporate media could convince the public to give in to the oil copmapnies agenda, which is in direct opposition to the interests of the public. Basically, I am saying the only reason we are not miles ahead is because we have to fight the Republicans, their free propoganda wing at Fox, and the corporatist MSM whioch does not support the common man. The Dems are on the side of the common man, who doesn’t have a voice in the current facist corporate controlled Republican climate.
Alec,
You’ve got to be kidding. You’re talking about the media which has refused to cover Edwards’ affair until today when he finally admitted it after the National Enquirer published photos. Or is this the same media which travelled all around the world with Obama while not covering McCain’s trip to Iraq and the Middle East just a few months ago? There is a reason newspaper circulation and television ratings are at record lows for the MSM, it’s because people are sick of them.
As for drilling, you couldn’t be further from the truth. If Dems are on the side of the common man, why have they regulated oil practically out of production? In the 1970s during the Arab oil embargo, we only imported about 26% of our oil. Today, we produce just over a third of the oil we consume. Since the 1970s, we’ve put more and more lands off limits to production. What you don’t understand about oil and the oil companies is they have a price incentive to get more out of the ground. You’ll make more money getting 100 million barrels a day out of the ground and selling the oil at $80 a barrel than you will selling 60 million barrels a day at $100 a barrel. I think it’s really funny that your party continues to demonize the oil companies when it wasn’t that long ago that oil was $10 a barrel and gas was under a buck a gallon. If the oil companies are so good at manipulating the prices, why didn’t they do it a decade ago when prices were at record lows?
Chris, I agree 100%,
Everyone knows what happened to oil prices had nothing to do with deregulation or the National Energy Policy Development Group.
Bush and Cheney both came from the energy industry, and there was nothing they could do to stop oil and gas from going through the roof.
That’s how powerful these people you disagree with are, not even the President could stop these Democrats, although he tried.
There is a well known public record of the Republicans trying to do something to stop these Democrats that goes back for years.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room Chris!
Where did my post go? I was the second responder to the topic. I said I thought it was a nice add,
and I included links to Dr. Bob’s “Operation Helmet” website along with links to audio from that
site so people could hear Al Franken interview Dr. Bob on his Air America radio show.
My Post is no longer on the site. If there was something that I posted that should not have been included,
please have the courtesy to let me know what it was. I believe Franken has done much to serve our troops by
going on the USO tours, and by promoting donations to Operation Helmet.
I retract my retraction p-black!!!
Maybe I read you more correctly the first time!
OPERATION HELMET is for the troops. The USO shows were for the troops.
You rightwingers giving lip service remember them at all????
Its those people risking getting blowed up for your asses. The ones you’ve been parading for years & who get largely ignored when they come back
& need services for what was incurred during their period of service. Sometimes, what body parts they left there.
The military folks we had been told at least 3 times in the course of several years, had all the armor & equipment they needed by a lying Dick Cheney.
Is it a wonder no one rational even disputes that Bush & Cheney have deliberately lied to us a number of times?
If any scamming here for political plays actually followed the history - for a time, some branches of the service were threatening to prosecute
troops who used “unathorized” equipment!
How can anyone DARE malign this effort?
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“Likey have more damaging goods on Al?”
What the hell does THAT mean? That’s a pretty damn vague way to try & SwiftBoat the campaign with undefined aspersions.
Unnamed implications. A whisper campaign? Whatever happened to Minnesota values? Are these being replaced by tin Karl Rove wannabees?
Franken has been a disaster for the DFL. He has torn the party apart,,,
Really?? Because from my seat, I’ve seen Franken work his ass off since ‘04 for DFL candidates. I’ve seen Franken be to a large degree, responsible for Klobachar winning the Senate seat and my state senator and state representative winning their seats. Does that mean Franken was entitled to the nomination? Absolutely not, Franken again, worked his ass off to win this nomination. He’s the only candidate for the seat that I’ve met. Jack never came up to my district. Ciresi never came up to my district. Al showed up. I was able to talk, at length with him, about his plans for repairing the damage done to the country by the GOP. He, of course didn’t put it like that, that’s my spin. But I found him to be entirely authentic and sincere. No artifice, no phony outrage. He remembers the people he came from. Coleman can be your candidate if you like what the GOP has done for the country these last eight years. Coleman and Bush are tied together with an extremely short tether. Norm can only stray from the cult of neo-fascist republican party faithful by 8%. In light of Suskind’s revelations that our President ignored our top Iraqi intelligence asset when he told the CIA, there were no WMD, months before the invasion. In light of Suskind’s revelations that our President ordered the CIA to forge documents, to connect Saddam and al Qaeda, would Norm still answer the question, “If you knew then, what you know now, was the Iraq invasion a good decision?” Norm answered yes. After seeing all the lies and corruption, all the death and misery our President launched upon the world, Norm answered yes. What a guy. Can’t say he’s not loyal, or at least well trained. I had a dog like that once.
Chris-
Do you mean McCain’s trip where he SAID he was able to walk around a Baghdad market without protection, when he was accompanied by 100 armed soldiers, 3 black hawk helicopters, 2 apache gunships, and was wearing flack protection?
Yeah…I saw press photos of that expedition, which proved that not only McCain, but also you are lying about that particular foray.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/mccain-iraq-stroll/
Oh…and as to how republicans feel about supporting the troops…how did McCain vote on the Webb amendment?
Believe it or not lojasmo, McCain has been to Iraq eight times, unlike Obama. The last time he was there was in March of this year where he met with General Petraeus to receive an update about the progress of the surge. And no, Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson didn’t tag along like a bunch of groupies at a rock concert. I love how you like to call everyone else a liar when you don’t even know when McCain went to Iraq.
Chris, I agree 100%,
What we need is the bold strong steady leadership of George W. Bush. Someone who is very very unpopular, and makes decisions based on winning elections first.
When McCain wins, people like you, Chris will continue to have power over those who disagree with you. The permanent election campaign will continue, as it should. You can tell people who disagree with you to “get over it”, and that will be a lot of fun, won’t it Chris.
Republican Minnesota bloggers will continue to determine he course of Minnesota when the Republican party wins. I’m certain, knowing that, we will most certainly win in a landslide.
That looming landslade is why we Minnesota Republican bloggers must continue to stalk Liberal websites and attempt over and over again to take down these Liberals who disagree with us.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room Chris
Very good ad.
I think that challengers from outside politics need to be able to demonstrate what they have done to make a difference… they personally. Not listing a bunch of committees they sit on or advisory councils they are a part of. This is a great example of something Franken did that, regardless of if it was for political exposure or not, who cares. He made something happen.
I won’t be voting for Franken, but think this is a very good ad.
So DTM, you really like what Al Franken has done for the troops, yet you will vote for the guy who is all talking points, and who follows a failed administration 92% of the time.
SWD it’s called pocket book. Vote against the interest of the nation, veterans, everyone else basically because I may have to pay a dollar or two more in taxes. That’s the definition of the “Me generation”.
No Richard, you are the epitome of the “me generation.” You want free health care, more social spending, more welfare, etc. You’re the guy who wants to “give away” as many programs as possible and don’t care who you have to tax to get them.
I don’t know a single Democrat who wants what Chris claims we want.
I do know that it is the republican party that took us to a very expensive and unnecessary war (Iraq, not Afghanistan), built a record deficit and allowed our nation to fall into a depression because they think we can bond everything to our grandchildren. It is an 8 year republican administration controlled by oilmen that did not encourage any innovative technology to lead us away from oil dependence. And that is after 15 years of a republican controlled congress starting with the Newt Contract On America.
It is a republican minority that has for the last 2 years filibustered any legislation that would move us forward as a nation because that is their strategy to claim that Dems didn’t accomplish anything.
This is the first time in our nation’s history that a political party thinks we can go to war and not pay for it. When is the last time you bought war bonds, or rationed your sugar, butter and flour for the war effort? When is the last time you rode your bike because you wanted more oil to go to the troops? And when did you volunteer to go and fight the war, or encourage your children to go and fight it for you?
So keep telling yourself that it is those horrible Democrats who are ruining America.
“So DTM, you really like what Al Franken has done for the troops, yet you will vote for the guy who is all talking points, and who follows a failed administration 92% of the time.”
No. I like want Franken has done for the troops, but with my vote I will vote for moderate Norm Coleman who is the 43rd most conservative Senator in DC. His voting record is strikingly similar to Democrats such as Ben Nelson or Mary Landreau. http://www.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/sen/lib_cons.htm?o1=con_composite&o2=desc#results
Here is the problem with many of y’all. I give Franken a compliment and you try to make me into a hypocrite. News Flash: There was a time when in order to support one public servant, you didn’t have to hate the other guy.
Too bad we’ve sunken to this. The venom is pervasive.
southwestdem,
Your arguments are absurd. First, the Republican administration has promoted way more alternative energy, including wind and solar and also including ethanol mandates, than any previous administration. Democrats have filibustered to refuse the Bush administration’s pleas to start producing more domestic oil. There are billions of barrels of oil just waiting to be tapped that are now off limits thanks to Democrats saying no. Second, there is no oil, butter, sugar, flour or any other shortage that needs to be rationed for the troops of for anyone else. This is the modern world, not the WWII depression from sixty odd years ago. Third, you complain about Republicans in Congress filibustering. Now that is funny considering how often the Democrats filibustered over the last six years. The Democrats completely control the house and they can’t even get budget bills passed out of the house on time. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have approval ratings much lower than Bush’s. Fourth, if you don’t think Democrats are begging for more free government, you’re not paying attention to Obama’s proposals which include free health care for illegal immigrants.
DTM, maybe Coleman’s voting record this year is more moderate, but up until this time he held a 92% voting record in alignment with Bush. Not a moderate. Most of the republicans running this fall have moderated their voting records to try and win elections. As for hateful, Newt started that in 1994, along with people like Rush Limbaugh and his hate radio.
Chris, Then where is all of this alternative energy? All I see are record oil company profits and soaring energy costs for home owners. If you drill these well, where do you think you are going to refine the oil? With no increase in refinery capacity in 30 years, all of this untapped oil you speak of is useless. To say that the oil companies couldn’t build becuase of EPA legislation is a copout. They would rather keep their profits for themselves than protect the environment.
It wasn’t because of shortages that there was rationing. It was to ensure that our troops got everything first. Americans were proud to help. I don’t see that today. Most Americans would prefer that they not be involved, and this administration promotes that.
You need to brush up on your congressional rules if you think this Democratic Congress has any control beyond being a simple majority. The approval ratings of Reid and Pelosi are a result of the public’s misconception of how Congress is run, and obviously you hold the same misconceptions.
No Democrat thinks these programs are free, but Democrats believe in an equal America at all levels of society (and that does not mean socialism or communism either, another misconception), something republicans would love to ignore. Why else would you be so concerned with keeping all for yourself? Even God doesn’t preach that. I was taught to live my values, not just preach them.
Chris, I agree 100%,
The worst thing we can invest in is the American people, especially those who disagree with us. Everyone knows investing in the American people is not only a waste of money, but is selfish, because people we disagree with want to do things like that. The worst part of this is some of the people who would benefit from this disagree with we Minnesota Republican bloggers on the issues.
Giving away money to corporations, however, is just good investment and common sense. Short term gains are always a good choice for taxpayer money.
Everyone knows the taxpayer dollars have been spent very wisely by the Republican party and the Bush administration. There has been little waste of taxpayer dollars, and the taxpayers are getting huge returns in their investments that we Republicans decided for them. ANYONE who does not believe this is just a moonbat who hates America and wants us to lose in Iraq.
Anyone who disagrees with we Republicans and gets in our way must be either assimilated or ridiculed. Fortunetely for the Minnesota Republican bloggers, we have highly intelligent people like you, Chris, to stalk Liberal websites and take down these moonbats with a large array of fallacious arguments. The end justifies the means.
Winning elections is the only thing that matters to us Minnesota Republican bloggers, and the permanent election campaign rolls on, day after day, week after week, year after year. For us who represent the Minnesota Republican party, the election campaign will never ever end, not until we are so unpopular that only a fool would vote for us…..and obviously you know, Chris, that will never happen.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room Chris
And, what exactly have the republicans done that you are so proud of? Give me one thing I should teach my child to be proud to look to the republicans for? All you ever seem to complain about are “social programs”.
Through history, the most social growth, economic growth and prosperity has occurred when ALL Americans have been taken care of (and I don’t mean handouts). When we become elitist and worry about “mine”, economic downturns up to and including depressions happen.
It is a very common fact that our country is the most prosperous under Democrats than republicans. Wall Street analysts right now are saying that.
Southwestdem,
I agree with you that it’s a crying shame there hasn’t been an oil refinery built in 30 years. And you don’t have the reasons correct at all. Environmental regulations and the ability of enviornmental groups to sue against allowing oil refineries to be permitted have been the major stumbling block for new refineries. As for oil company profits, it’s pretty amazing that oil companies are somehow able to manipulate the markets today to have record profits yet they were unable to manipulate the markets in the 1990s when oil was under $20 and gas was under $1 a gallon. The problem is that we do not have enough domestic supply to keep up with demand and Reid and Pelosi are blocking the ability to increase the supply. That’s right, Reid and Pelosi know there are bi-partisan majorities in favor of drilling where we know are billions of barrels of oil yet they refuse to even allow a vote. Who are the obstructionists?? Certainly not the GOP.
As for your view of economic growth and prosperity, you’ve got it all backwards. You imply that the best economic growth happens when government spends the most on people. If that were the case, post-Great Society 1960s and 1970s should have been a time of boom not stagflation, unemployment and misery. The best economic periods in the 20th century happened when government cut taxes, encouraged economic growth and allowed the private sector to create jobs, goods and services. I also got a kick out of your comment that Wall Street thinks America is more prosperous under Democrats. Since you people hate Wall Street so much, I’m surprised you don’t become Repubicans. But you don’t probably because you know it’s not true. I’d just say compare the Carter years to the Reagan years or even the current Busg years and you’ll see the difference.
As for what I am proud of as a Republican. I am proud of the fact that we have been safe as a nation since the September 11, 2001 attacks. I am proud that we are no longer putting up with attack after attack as we did throughout the 1990s. I’m proud that we’re not letting tin bit dictators and corrupt world leaders dictate our foreign policy to us. I’m proud that we have leadership which recognizes the great things America has done for the world and seeks to continue American greatness not wish it away.
If you feel so safe because of the war in Iraq, you are really out of touch. It was 9 years between the last attack and 9-11. As one whose husband travels the world and is privy to inside information, to think that terrorism has been squelched is at best naive on your part.
If you are so proud of our stance in the world, then why is it that Saddam is the only tin bit dictator that Bush attacked? I am so glad you are proud to be an isonalist in this world we live in, and I am truly glad that you are not my next door neighbor.
Foreign policy IS dictated by relationships with other governments, so should we go and take over all of the governemtns we don’t like, or should we use diplomacy to try and find ways to all cohabitate this planet? Bush originally ran on a platform of “no nation building”. Who around the world agrees with Bush’s leadership and the “great things” that America has done?
Finally, if economic growth has happened because Bush cut taxes, then where is my tax break? I haven’t seen one in 8 years. In fact, I pay MORE not less. And certainly not because income has increased. Why are you ignoring the Clinton years and not comparing THEM to the Bush years? I didn’t see any depression during the Carter years either, any more than in the Reagan years.
YOu like to cherry pick history to suit your own arguments.
Chris, I agree 100%,
The obvious success of every Republican policy since Reagan have made America a better place. Our track record speaks for itself. American prosperity will continue only if we Minnesota Republican bloggers win the war against the biggest enemy of America, people who disagree with us.
Anyone who disagrees with that assessment does not matter. Their voices should go unheard by the White House, Congress, and the Courts, because they are wrong on every issue., every time.
Only people who agree with Republicans matter. That is what Republican success is about. Everyone agrees America needs to continue its wars, the culture war, the war on Liberals, the war on press that disagrees with us, the war on the war on Christmas and Easter, the war on Liberal activist judges, the war on Hollywood elitists, these wars must be won or America is doomed.
Our elected Republicans, and the Republican President, when elected, need to continue the permanent election campaign and only listen to us Republicans. That is what made George W. Bush a complete undebateable success. His strong, bold, steady leadership depended upon only listening to people who agree with him, and it is comon knowledge that his presidency worked well for us. He empowered we who agree with him to battle Americas worst enemy, people who disagree with us.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room and Minnesota Republican Blogger Chris
So where is this depression everyone is referring to?
Did that charisma and charm of Bill Clinton just “will” the Newt-let Congress to pass his budgets? Or did, (gasp), Newt work in a bipartisan way with the Democrats to create the economic expansion of the late 90’s? I just love how everyone thinks it happened in spite of Newt trying to stop it. Those budgets passed the House, Senate, and Executive Desks, and Newt and Bill jointly should get the credit.
If Pelosi and Reid could work jointly with today’s GOP adminstration and vice-versa, we’d have a hell of alot more to show for the past two years. (queue the chorus of lefty’s talking about how you can’t work with Bush, a tired refrain).
Southwestdem,
I’m glad you’re not my neighbor either. Because if you think the world is safer by having champagne toasts with Kim Jong Il (ala Madeline Halfbright and the Clinton administration), you’re sorely mistaken. If you think we’re the isolationists, you’re even more mistaken. You can’t get more isolationist than North Korea and Iran. Iran especially wants to wipe you and me off the map. You’re like Richard who thinks we’re more dangerous than they are and that’s very very sad. That’s the fundamental difference between some on the left and most Republicans. You think that America is to blame for all of the evils in the world.
I’m glad you’re paying more in taxes too. Since you like taxes so well you should be very pleased.
Chris Republicans have proved beyond all doubt that THEY don’t know how to run a government. The fact that you look at the last 8 years and see anything but a long series of failures, mistakes and foolish people doing stupid things means you have not a clue about 21st Century America. Real Republicans like Eisenhower would be aghast at the Bush administrations invasion of citizen privacy without judicial oversight alone. You Bush Republicans have turned your back on smaller government, fiscal responsibility and the Constitution. You have replaced a nation of laws with some weird cult of personality with a buffoon at the head.
Operation Helmet is part of the ‘America Supports You’ group which sponsors the annual ‘Freedom Walk’ to remember victims of 11 September 2001.
So I wonder who this ad is designed to appeal to since I think of the ‘America Supports You’ group as Right Wing.
Dr. Bob is an interesting character. I wonder if he remembers reading Standards of Conduct (SECNAVINST 5370.2) from his active duty days. I don’t think he should be using his military rank and service affiliation to endorse a political candidate even if he says he’s a friend and does not explicitly say he endorses the candidate.
I think the military could bring Dr Bob back on active duty and punish him by taking away his retirement pension. So I hope Dr. Bob still has his Republican friends too so that he can avoid ‘administrative action’ for his indiscretion of making friends with a DFL candidate for Senate.
Congress should be funding equipment needed by the troops. I don’t know that a Senate candidate that supports an organization that provides equipment that Congress does not stands to gain much from an ad like this. Perhaps it’s appealing to people whose vocabulary is full of ‘freedom, liberty, democracy, victory, etc.’
Chris-
Given that the US owns 2% of oil reserves, and uses 24% of the supply, do you think it’s likely that we will EVER have enough domestic supply to keep up with demands?
The US is the most extensively explored and developed oil producing nation on earth with 577,000 producing wells, and yet our oil production has dropped while our demand has increased.
We cannot drill ourselves out of this problem. Sustainable energy sources will save us (perhaps) Drilling will not.
Chris and Richard - your comments are much appreciated.
Opinions are a great thing to have - they don’t HAVE to be based upon reality, as you well seem to know.
You’ll have to excuse my not buying your spin, though.
Franken will be much better for Minnesota than any more of smarmy Normy Coleman!
Chris, I agree 100%,
People who disagree with us think that America is to blame for all of the evils in the world.
The Republicans, however, think that Americans who disagree with us are to blame for all of the evils in the world.
There is a huge difference.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room Chris!
Re post #41 , I believe the ad is trying to appeal to people that support the troops.
Those that appreciate action rather than just words. Despite what some think, these people do not
belong to just one party. I don’t think Dr. Bob is endorsing Franken, he is just stating how Franken helped
him in protecting our troops. Something that our government was not doing at the time.
lojasmo,
Your post is way outdated. We’ve recently discovered 90 billion barrels of oil just off Alaska in the Arctic - enough to supply the entire world for 3 years and to supply America for 12 years. We’ve also discovered 86 billion barrels of oil off the outer continental shelf. You can do the math from there. And that doesn’t even include the hundreds of trillions of feet of natural gas. The point is that while we should also pursue other forms of energy (though I doubt we’ll ever have a 747 run off of solar or wind), we should immediately tap into what we have at home. Only the environmental lobby, which gives money to Reid and Pelosi, refuses to allow our own country to drill where there are proven reserves.
Chris, I agree 100%,
If you post some links to the story about these oil discoveries, that should take down some moonbats very well.
Great Job Smartest Man In The Room Chris
I like the Paris Hilton plan.
Dantheman,I agree 100%,
That’s why we Republicans have to vote for John McCain, because he agrees with Paris Hilton.
Great Job!!
TFRWG
I agree 100% that Chris should document his claims.
Good work, faux republican poster TFRWG!