AL FRANKEN FOR PRESIDENT 2012!

[Hawkeye-X]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9688346

I tell ya, he speaks well, and would make a fine President of the United States, if not 2012, someday.

Hawkeye-X

[Honeycombe8]

1. LOL! nt

[TheWraith]

2. We already have a president for 2012. nt

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Who? Obama?

I don't think he's gunning for his 2nd term, the way he acts and behaves.

I'm all for a primary from the left.

Hawkeye-X

[TheWraith]

16. And I'm all for finding unicorns. Doesn't mean it's going to happen. nt

[Webster Green]

4. What?....No election?

That's fucked up. Another of Obama's bright ideas?

[Swamp Rat]

8. Has the election been cancelled?

:shrug:

[Hawkowl]

11. Yeah, but I don't like Palin

Obama will lose in a landslide if he runs.

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[woo me with science]

5. I would enjoy that campaign.

For one thing, we'd probably get to see a lot of old SNL skits in the Republican ads.

Seriously, though, I had reservations about Al at the start, because he seemed like an interloper to Minnesota politics. But he has turned out to be a gem. On unemployment, on net neutrality, he is proving to be a passionate and potent ally.

[bemildred]

6. I'm in. nt

[Subdivisions]

7. NO! n/t

[RegieRocker]

9. Nope

[pa28]

10. Yes.

And here is Franken in some Presidential action over the Senate telling Lieberman to STFU (just for fun).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0Jm8g30dE

[pnwmom]

12. Not a chance in hell that he'll run. nt

[Gravel Democrat]

13. Wouldn't consider it even if he sent his kids into the war he supported

because he supported it and his kids would never have gone

"Franken had initially supported the Iraq War but opposed the 2007 troop surge. In an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough,<58> Franken said that he "believed Colin Powell", whose presentation at the United Nations convinced him that the war was necessary. However, since then he had come to believe that "we were misled into the war" and urged the Democratically-controlled Congress to refuse to pass appropriations bills to fund the war if they don't include timetables for leaving Iraq..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken

Even though he "changed his mind" he was stupid or gullible enough to believe the Colin Lies.

F&ck Franken

Al Franken is a Big Fat Phony

"...Coverage of Iraq is largely confined to the corruption of Halliburton and the general idea that whatever has gone wrong there is the fault of George W. Bush and the Republicans. That the war was a "mistake" is laid at the feet of

Bush, with no mention of the Democrats' role in voting for it, including J. Kerry and H. Clinton. "Incompetence" over the waging of the war is a frequent complaint as though it would be better for an "unjust and unnecessary war," in the words of Jimmy Carter, to be waged more competently. (Would that Hitler had been a little more competent!) At one point last December at the time of his last visit to "the troops," Franken exclaimed that he "did not know what to do" about Iraq. Several weeks ago Franken was in fine fettle over the first anniversary of his Air America program to which considerable time was devoted; but it was also about the time of the second anniversary of the war's beginning. The numerous anti-war demonstrations at that time received not a word of coverage

Franken himself is full of praise for "the troops." He does not say that these troops are being used as cannon fodder in a criminal war simply that they are doing "a great job." There is no systematic tracking of either U.S. or Iraqi casualties. Each week the conservative, John McLaughlin, on his PBS program tracks the Iraqis killed and the Americans killed and wounded in Iraq. No such segment exists on Franken's program - nor on any other Air American Radio program as far as I know. It speaks volumes that the conservative McLaughlin provides a more biting critque of the war than Franken and his cronies can muster..."

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh05042005.html

[Scruffy1]

14. Being a Minnesotan I don't thinks so..

While he's a big improvement from the bastard Coleman-he's no Wellstone. He has pretty much stayed a centrist and tried to avoid controversy. Strange to say I was a precinct captain for him and ran canvassing crews mainly to make sure Norm was gone for good. On several issues he has ducked like an ostrich, which of course is the politicians art. Jack Nelson-Palmyer would have made a better Senator but I knew he couldn't raise the dough and didn't have the organization that Al had. We live with the politicians we get and try to goad, prod, or cajole them but in the end it takes a large voter bloc to have any influence. All in all a fairly good man but slightly conservative. Twenty years ago he would have been a Republican.