Norm Coleman is a fool. (link fixed)

[ztn]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050518/cm_thenation/12544/

here's the gist:

Norm Coleman is a fool.

Not an ideological nutcase, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot -- just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.

The U.S. media, which thrives on official sound bites, was more than willing to lend credence to Coleman's overblown claims about wrongdoing in the UN program...

Even as Coleman's claims became more and more fantastic, he faced few challenges from the cowering Democrats in Congress.

But when Coleman started slandering foreign politicians he exposed the dramatic vulnerability of his claims that the supposed scandal was much more than a blatant example of U.S. corporations taking advantage of their powerful connections in Washington to undermine official U.S. policy, harm the national interest and profit off the suffering of the poor.

The Senate investigation that Coleman sought regarding the Oil-for-Food program has already revealed that the Bush administration failed to crack down on widespread abuse of the oil-for-food program by U.S. energy companies, and that U.S. oil purchases accounted for the majority of the kickbacks paid to Saddam.
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read rest at link. What a great article! straight to the ugly, bald point!

[ztn]

1. Damn!! doesn't work. I found it thru Google News. U'll find it. Sorry!

[bemildred]

2. Norm Coleman is a tool.

Your link still sucks.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Try this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/thenation/20050518/cm_thenation/12544_1

[0007]

7. Ah, this link worked real well. This is the quote I liked in the article;

"The problem for Coleman is that Coleman is not a standard-issue American politician -- the kind who has nothing to say and says it poorly. He is a veteran of the rough-and-tumble politics of Glasgow and the equally rough-and-tumble politics of the British parliament. In other words, Galloway comes from places where voters and politicians do not suffer fools. And anyone who has ever followed British politics knows that George Galloway has beaten every political challenge he has faced -- even those posed by British Prime Minister
Tony Blair."

I must get John Nichols's new book, "Against the Beast": A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire

[sinkingfeeling]

4. It's a great write up (with one typo) from the Nation. Rated it 5 starts.

[katty]

5. Norm should go back to his Lords in Flatbush

He could be a marginally convincing actor in a feature part on the Sopranos. He is so obviously a stooge for bush/cheney, Galloway mopped his little brain all over the Senate floor. When I heard Galloway was 'comin' to town' I knew he would flaten those liars.
Coleman was a piece of cake.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. This should be required reading for anyone who's going to run against him.

All you have to do is say the truth about him, about his master's war, and about his actions and it shuts Coleman up.
Of course, Coleman will go on a talk show that night and say somehting like "Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Well, well, you're a big poopyhead!"
Coleman's going down in 2008.

[MN ChimpH8R]

8. All the things he is. . .

And I will keep repeating them as long as Lick-spittle Normie is mentioned.

Empty Suit
Tool
Asshat
Liar
Sleaze Weasel
Kisser of Chimperor Ass
Thug
Goon
Barf Mat
Puppet
Stooge

He is the very model of the modern age Rethuglican.
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

Apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan

[KitchenWitch]

9. Do not forget turncoat

and carpetbagger!