Wellstone's Memorial Service right out of "The Onion"

[miles]

I can see the headline now:

"Thousands Attend Senator's Memorial Service Bash"

What a bunch of shameless bastards. A memorial service wih people smiling and laughing, singers banging out "Love Train," then booing Sen. Trent Lott who came to pay his respects.

This was a service to honor the memory of a US Senator. The man and several family members were killed in a plane crash.

And Democrats have the gall to call themselves progressive.

 

[Ishmael]

I can see the headline now:

"Thousands Attend Senator's Memorial Service Bash"

What a bunch of shameless bastards. A memorial service wih people smiling and laughing, singers banging out "Love Train," then booing Sen. Trent Lott who came to pay his respects.

This was a service to honor the memory of a US Senator. The man and several family members were killed in a plane crash.

And Democrats have the gall to call themselves progressive.

It's already backfired on them Miles.

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Ventura Upset Over Wellstone Service
Wed Oct 30,11:26 AM ET

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, upset by what he felt was a partisan tone of a memorial service to honor the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, said he will try to appoint an independent instead of a Democrat to fill Wellstone's seat until a new candidate is certified.

Ventura had said he favored a replacement from Wellstone's party, but that was before he walked out of Tuesday night's memorial service.

Ventura referred to a speech by one of Wellstone's closest friends, Rick Kahn, in which Kahn said to
the crowd, "I'm begging you to help us win this Senate election for Paul Wellstone."

"I wanted to hear the sons. But Rick Kahn's, I found his so offensive to me as an Independent, or to anyone who is not necessarily going to vote for Senator Wellstone who still respects him and came to pay their respects," Ventura said. "It drove the first lady to tears."

"I will try to find an independent," Ventura said Wednesday on a talk radio show. He did not say who he might name.

A temporary appointee would fill the seat until Tuesday's election results are certified. Democrat Walter Mondale is expected to enter the race against Republican

Norm Coleman.

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Ishmael

 

[miles]

Re: Re: Wellstone's Memorial Service right out of "The Onion"

It's already backfired on them Miles.

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Ventura Upset Over Wellstone Service
Wed Oct 30,11:26 AM ET

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, upset by what he felt was a partisan tone of a memorial service to honor the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, said he will try to appoint an independent instead of a Democrat to fill Wellstone's seat until a new candidate is certified.

Ventura had said he favored a replacement from Wellstone's party, but that was before he walked out of Tuesday night's memorial service.

Ventura referred to a speech by one of Wellstone's closest friends, Rick Kahn, in which Kahn said to
the crowd, "I'm begging you to help us win this Senate election for Paul Wellstone."

"I wanted to hear the sons. But Rick Kahn's, I found his so offensive to me as an Independent, or to anyone who is not necessarily going to vote for Senator Wellstone who still respects him and came to pay their respects," Ventura said. "It drove the first lady to tears."

"I will try to find an independent," Ventura said Wednesday on a talk radio show. He did not say who he might name.

A temporary appointee would fill the seat until Tuesday's election results are certified. Democrat Walter Mondale is expected to enter the race against Republican

Norm Coleman.

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Ishmael

The whole thing is beyond sleazy, but par for the course. When all is said and done, it will be a blip on the radar screen. The sad part is they could have done far worse things there and most Americans still wouldn't care.

 

[Ishmael]

Re: Re: Re: Wellstone's Memorial Service right out of "The Onion"

The whole thing is beyond sleazy, but par for the course. When all is said and done, it will be a blip on the radar screen. The sad part is they could have done far worse things there and most Americans still wouldn't care.

Yep, but for that short blip of time. Jesse has just taken the Senate out of the Democrats control. Meaningful? Probably not, but damn sure symbolic.

(Maybe long enough to get some judicial appointments through.)

Ishmael

 

[phrodeau]

It was meant to be a celebration of those lives that were lost, not a somber memorial service. And for the first two hours, it was.

It was Rick Kahn that steered events out of line with his party rhetoric. Watching his speech, I kept expecting the MC to interrupt and regain control, but he never did. The MC (ex-mayor George Latimer) followed Kahn's speech with a wry and deflating comment about bipartisanship.

David Wellstone's sentiments restored the mood, but Mark Wellstone ended his time by again driving the crowd into partisan fervor, which peaked at the conclusion with Sen. Tom Harkin working the crowd like a pro.

I think it's just something you have to expect when you give a politician a microphone and an audience. It's what they like to do.

 

[Guest]

A couple of questions:

How should have Paul Wellstone's family and friends honored his life--a life dedicated to hardcore liberal politics, mind you-- and what gives you the authority to comment on a memorial they organized during a period of enormous grief?

Who has any right, for that matter?

Follow up questions: How do you stop a group of 20,000 emotionally-drained individuals from expressing their feelings, be it appropriately or otherwise? And finally, why would you want to?

Take your time. Your credibility is already suspect.

 

[Ishmael]

A couple of questions:

How should have Paul Wellstone's family and friends honored his life--a life dedicated to hardcore liberal politics, mind you-- and what gives you the authority to comment on a memorial they organized during a period of enormous grief?

Who has any right, for that matter?

Follow up questions: How do you stop a group of 20,000 emotionally-drained individuals from expressing their feelings, be it appropriately or otherwise? And finally, why would you want to?

Take your time. Your credibility is already suspect.

Not anywhere as suspect as your grip on reality.

Ishmael

 

[Guest]

Why should the same people who hated what Wellstone stood for and ardently wished for his career to be over get to be the ones who tell the people who actually cared about him how to mourn him? If I died, and people were holding a memorial service for me, I wouldn't want them to do anything just because they were afraid one of my mortal enemies might criticize them for it. Fuck my mortal enemies, I would say from beyond the grave, you are the people who are hurting, do what's going to make you feel better. That's how I feel about it. If the family liked it and his supporters liked it then nobody else has any business criticizing it. Besides, after the way Bush has exploited the massive outpouring of grief over the 9/11 victims in a cynical and coldblooded attempt to protect his own power, he and his cronies have a LOT of gall getting on Wellstone's campaign's case about one incident.

 

[Lost Cause]

Just so long...

As the opposition gets an equal 4 hours of airtime, as did the Dem-Soc's carried by major news orgs. And they talk of conservatives seizing power, I caught the call on the tube for the Dem-soc's opposition to step aside and allow them to win. Equal two party voting in NJ, but not in MN? This is getting sickening. I'm glad their true nature and hate has become exposed for all to see.

 

[Sillyman]

Politics is so ugly. It turns so many good natured people into assholes. There ought to be a law. Really.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Re: Just so long...

Equal two party voting in NJ, but not in MN? This is getting sickening. I'm glad their true nature and hate has become exposed for all to see.

Oh that's right. The Republicans weren't saying 2 Party voting in NJ and not in MN.

 

[SINthysist]

All's Well That's Wellstone
Dan Frisa
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002
The sorry spectacle last evening at the Wellstone "Memorial Service" in Minnesota is just more evidence of the cynicism and hypocrisy of both the Democrat party and the legacy of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn.
His sudden death – and that of his wife, daughter, aides and two pilots – on Friday was indeed a sad and tragic event.

Wellstone was an unabashed liberal, and loudly proud of it.

And he ran a successful grassroots campaign in 1990, unseating Republican incumbent Sen. Rudy Boschwitz.

But to read and hear the memorial speeches and eulogies – from both the left and the right – is an exercise in pure, unadulterated fiction.

Paul Wellstone may have started out as an idealistic politician of the left, sticking to his positions regardless of the consequences.

But that Paul Wellstone left this earth long before his unfortunate and untimely death.

Wellstone was as crassly political and opportunistic as either of the Clintons and he switched his positions and votes on key issues as it suited him.

Here are several examples that belie the posthumous attribution of near sainthood to his tenure in the Senate. These issues run the gamut, including war, the environment, term limits and PACs.

Wellstone signed a term-limit pledge in 1990, promising to serve only two terms in the Senate. His campaign for re-election to a third term is a direct violation of his word.

U.S. Term Limits, a non-partisan public interest group, commented last year:

"It's sad to see Sen. Wellstone announce today that he has been corrupted by the power politics of Washington. The desire for a political career has turned an idealistic college professor into a partisan political hack. Sen. Wellstone has always talked a great deal about taking the high road in politics. Today, we leaned that was just talk. Today, Paul Wellstone personally took the low road."

What's so courageous and principled about that blatant, self-serving move and what was conservative journalist Fred Barnes thinking when he wrote his drippy op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Monday?

Hundreds of others jumped right in and expressed similar silly – and untrue – sentiments in columns and interviews commenting on Wellstone’s character and career.

Here’s another Wellstone whopper: his pledge NOT to accept self-characterized "evil" PAC contributions.

"Saint" Paul broke that promise as well, with nearly $1,000,000 on his current campaign report, dated Oct. 16, 2002.

But here’s what he promised in an article from the Minnesota Daily on April 25, 1989 – before he decided he liked Washington and the Senate too much to ‘rely on the little people’ back in Minnesota:

"Wellstone is opposed to accepting political action committee money, and said he hopes to motivate the masses with grass roots politics, not money.

‘Money matters way too much in politics,’ Wellstone said. ‘I want to run a campaign where I'll be on the back of a pickup truck in all the small towns of Minnesota.’

‘My campaign for Senate will be very unorthodox because I'm not a millionaire, and about half of the Senators are millionaires,’ Wellstone said. ‘I'm not a professional politician, I'm an educator.’ "

So much for that all-too-rare integrity among our elected representatives as embodied by Wellstone, who always ‘stood by his beliefs!’

Let’s look at that favorite environmental litmus test of the Left: the vaunted and near-holy Kyoto Treaty.

Whoops! Mr. Enviro himself voted in favor of S-98 on July 25, 1997, a resolution declaring that the United States Senate would NOT approve the Kyoto Treaty without drastic changes to ensure the U.S. would not be economically hog-tied as envisioned in the Gore-inspired document.

Now, why would Wellstone have voted against the sentiments of Kyoto?

One possible clue is that Bill Clinton was in the White House and didn’t want to have to face an actual vote on the treaty. Maybe, just maybe, the Wellstone campaign should not have chosen green as its campaign color – unless, of course, it was to represent all the PAC money he decided to accept.

Finally there is the important issue of war and peace. The New York Times recently opined in an editorial memorializing Wellstone that he had "the courage" to twice vote against resolutions supporting armed action against Iraq – one against each President George Bush.

Let’s take a quick look at the Congressional Record and see what our sterling paragon of political virtue did on the 1998 Iraq resolution, during the tenure of Bill Clinton.

Uh, oh! It can’t be … there must certainly be some mistake!

But, alas, there is not.

Paul Wellstone "hawkishly" supported that Iraq resolution calling for regime change and bringing Saddam Hussein to justice.

What was so special and important and threatening about Saddam to earn his support then, but the others both before and after (during Republican administrations) were deserving of his stoic opposition?

Seems as though the senator was playing politics, supporting the president only when he is of the same party. There is simply no other explanation.

None of these clear examples of Wellstone acting in blatant self-interest and politics-as-usual should take away from his energetic, passionate approach to public service.

For that he should rightly be lauded and for that he will surely be missed.

But Wellstone was an imperfect politician.

Too claim otherwise following his death is not only dishonest; it also does a great disservice to those legitimately well-earned attributes that endeared him to so many during his vigorously lived life.

 

[SINthysist]

All Minnesota Politics Are Local
Diane Alden
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002

Minnesota politics is a strange affair and it always has been. Two areas usually decide elections. They are the Twin Cities and the Duluth/Mesabi Iron Range. If those two areas had not voted for Al Gore en masse, Minnesota's electoral votes would have gone to Bush. If you look at the famous election map of 2000, the red-blue map, most of the geographical state did go for Bush.

For the first time in many years I will be voting in Minnesota in a district that has not voted for a Republican since Herbert Hoover. The joke among the few conservatives or Republicans who do live on the Iron Range is that the Democrats could run a jackass and it would win.

The Minnesota Democratic Party or Democrat Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) evolved out of Minnesota's tendency to be populist and unpredictable. For quite some time, however, the prairie farmers in DFL have been voting Republican. On the other hand, the northern Minnesota labor vote seems to be forever Democrat.

The Iron Range of Minnesota is a place where it is impossible to convince people that the national Democratic Party is no longer the party "for the working man."

The Range's congressman, Democrat James Oberstar, is a 16-term Democrat who votes conservative on social issues and liberal on tax policies. Unlike the majority of Democrats, he is pro-life. On taxes and favors for business or the "rich" – forget it. He voted against removing the marriage tax penalty, as well as the death and estate taxes.

Oberstar works hard to get a share of federal pork back to the Iron Range in federal grants and road money. However, he has trouble convincing industry to do the much-needed work of job creation in the area. I will go into the reasons for that later.

Minnesota Democrats and Republicans realize that the vote on the Range is like the African-American vote, and it belongs to the Democrats until the end of time.

The Republican running against Oberstar is a Grand Rapids businessman. In the words of a Mesabi Daily News editorial, the Republican candidate is "running a stealth campaign." No one has seen hide nor hair of him. I certainly have not seen a sign or a piece of literature or watched him work crowds outside cafes, at potluck suppers, fairs, bazaars or town hall meetings.

Unfortunately, Republicans on the Iron Range look at their candidates as obligatory ritual sacrifice to be thrown into the political volcano. Republicans just go through the motions, keep their heads down and are happy when the least obnoxious Democrat is voted in.

Frankly, there will be quite a few Republicans who will vote for Oberstar because they don't know where the Republican candidate stands on any of the issues.

The Iron Range Loved Wellstone

The late Sen. Paul Wellstone, son of Russian immigrants, was arguably the most left/socialist senator in the U.S. Senate. Lots of campaign money was being spent on his campaign, most of it coming from outside the state. Even Hollywood had its checkbook out, as did the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, AFL-CIO, NARAL – the usual suspects.

Last summer the Green Party of Minnesota almost threw its support to Wellstone in his bid for re-election against Republican Norm Coleman. Many of the Greens saw Wellstone as a man who voted close to 100 percent for the green wish list. It never occurred to the miners and union members in northern Minnesota that Wellstone's green credentials might mean fewer jobs for them.

The fact is that northern Minnesota has never let the Democrats down.

The Range certainly never let Paul Wellstone down. When Wellstone ran for office against incumbent Republican Senator Ruddy Boschwitz in 1990, the Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing lent him an ancient green bus that he used as a campaign vehicle throughout the state. The Iron Range loved the poor-boy image. They also loved his "I am so humble" green bus, which was indicative of Wellstone's politics as well.

Wellstone was on the way to attend the funeral of the father of a heavy-hitter Range Democrat when his plane went down in the foggy sleet and snow near the Range town of Eveleth.

In his original run for the Senate, Wellstone presented himself as a maverick, David vs. Goliath. Born and educated in Virginia and Maryland, a professor of civics and leftist grassroots activist, Wellstone handily beat Boschwitz. The second time around, in '96, he carried the state by only 2 percentage points and most of those votes came from the Iron Range and Twin Cities.

Minnesotans just love to vote against conventional wisdom and against conventional politicians. That is why so many of them voted for Ross Perot. They also have a fondness for leftist mavericks like Wellstone. Younger Minnesotans adored Jesse Ventura, the oddball former wrestler who wore feather boas, rode a motorcycle and shamelessly promoted himself in Playboy and on TV talk shows. Most of all, he beat mainstream challengers to take the Minnesota governorship in '98.

Minnesota prefers the underdog, the oddball and the offbeat; that is, until they no longer can afford them.

Making Ghost Towns

Like many rural timber or mining areas, northern Minnesota is hemorrhaging population and jobs. That has been the case for over two decades. Never mind that the answer from the Democrats is more transfer payments. Wellstone and Oberstar were aces at that.

When several Minnesota iron mines, including LTV Mining, closed in the '90s, Wellstone and Oberstar helped extend jobless benefits to the men who lost their jobs. To the people on the Iron Range, that meant they cared. That very well may be true. However, benefits and transfer payments, grants and subsidies, are not as good as high-paying mining, timber or industry jobs – period.

In addition, business and industry are not replacing the absent mining and timber jobs, because there is very little incentive for them to do so.

Over the years, the Iron Range regional commission and politicians like Oberstar made a stab at job creation by making minor concessions to business. However, that effort resulted in only moderate success.

Northwest Airlines reservation center was lured to Chisholm. One of the reasons was that a fiber optics system was installed for the new mining museum. Northwest was able to hook into that and built a beautiful complex and had proposals for expansion. Great plans were afoot until the recession and the events of Sept. 11, 2001, ruined most of the airline industry, including Northwest.

Funds from the feds and the state of Minnesota built several museums and various attractions like the recently closed aquarium in Duluth, as well as a few hockey rinks. But these attractions don't offer very much except a short-term building boom, a chance to dole out political favors to top people, and a minimal number of seasonal, low-paying service jobs.

The attractions were meant to tempt large numbers of tourists. However, most tourists simply head to the lakes or to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and forego the sights. Tourism is a great boon for northern Minnesota, but it is not enough to keep people in good-paying, year-round jobs.

Bringing new business to northern Minnesota is problematical because there is an anti-business climate, and that attitude is entrenched. The sad fact is that unions in Minnesota – in fact, all over the upper Midwest – still want to portray business as the enemy. They equate all business with J.D. Rockefeller and company.

People in the upper Midwest remember that a hundred years ago Rockefeller made hard-nosed business decisions and "stole" the iron mines from the Merritt Brothers. Then old J.D. proceeded to make the miners buy their own shovels and used strikebreakers against them.

Fair enough, but they still blame Republicans for Rockefeller. They still blame Republicans for the suffering they endured during the Great Depression, suffering they blame on Republican Herbert Hoover.

Over 25 years ago, the South stopped blaming Republicans for Lincoln and their defeat in the War Between the States. But Rangers just won't let Hoover and Rockefeller go.

The mindset persists; long after the world has changed and moved on, business is still the enemy. They just can't understand that tax breaks for business do not mean you are sleeping with the enemy. Unlike rural Georgia, which offered tax-free industry zones to industry in the '70s and '80s, the attitude in northern Minnesota smacks of Depression-era thinking. That was the time when FDR and God were spoken of in almost the same tones.

Many rural Georgia communities adopted tax-free zones. These were usually limited to a period of five years. This led to the longest, most complete boom in modern times, and with it boundless growth. All of that began as Georgia demographics and politics began to change.

Conservative Republicans, along with their businesses, were moving in. Georgia was becoming at least half-Republican and tax smart. At about that time business from Japan, Germany, England and the East Coast began to relocate to the small towns west and south of Atlanta. Just a few years earlier, Democrats owned the South and Georgia, but that changed in one decade. There is now a balance of sorts.

Sadly, in northern Minnesota, if business does not lock itself into the union fold, or will not roll over for high taxes and a mountain of environmental regulations, they don't want it. Well, business is listening, and with some few exceptions, it stays away.

Northern Minnesota is an area of incredible beauty. It has an educated and hard-working population. Along with Lake Superior, the area has one-sixth of the world's fresh potable water. Crime is almost nonexistent, the air is clean and the people goodhearted. The Range should attract more industry – but it doesn't.

Another factor in Democratic control of the state is that Democrats have locked up the huge population of senior citizens. There is nothing Democrats don't promise them and absolutely nothing they don't try and deliver. Seniors voted for Wellstone and other Democrats by huge Majorities, the same way Democrats own seniors on Florida's southern coast.

Originally, Wellstone promised to serve only two terms, and last year he reneged. Pressured by outside interests, including Tom Daschle, Wellstone told Minnesotans that they needed him in office to fight the conservative agenda and the Bush administration.

On the Iron Range, Paul Wellstone would have beaten Republican Norm Coleman. But the rest of the state, excluding the Twin Cities, would have gone for Coleman.

Wellstone's name will be blacked out on the ballot and it looks like retired politico, former Vice President Walter Mondale, has been dragged out of mothballs to replace Wellstone. However, his moderate liberalism will not energize the radical wing of Minnesota Democrats and certainly not the Green Party, which might have cross-voted for Wellstone.

Mondale has not been active in electoral politics for nearly two decades. At 74, he is a year older than Ronald Reagan, whom he chided for running for president in 1984, because he believed Reagan was too old.

Mondale will probably be on the ballot. A word of caution, however: The Democrats' long knives are out. Lawsuits are being typed up and filed as I write this. The reasons for the lawsuits include the fact that they may not allow absentee voters who voted for Wellstone to cast a vote for Mondale. If Coleman wins, he'd better win by a good-sized majority because Democratic court challenges will keep him from taking office for months.

It may boil down to Jesse Ventura choosing who will be the senator from Minnesota until all the Democrat-instigated court challenges are completed.

Life After Jesse

In the race for the governorship of Minnesota, either Democrat Charles Moe or Independent Tim Penny will beat the best thing that has happened to Republicans or Minnesotans in decades. Republican State Representative Tim Pawlenty is a very special sort of politician.

Pawlenty spoke on the Range not long ago. Speaking in his self-deprecating way, he received a smattering of applause and laughter from the mostly Democrat audience. Pawlenty knew they would not vote for him. Yet he was sincere when he told them that someday they would. Not this year, he said, or in 2004, but someday.

Pawlenty, a youthful powerhouse in the State Legislature, is the son of a truck driver, a guy who worked his way through college and law school. Many Minnesotans wanted Pawlenty to run for the Senate against Wellstone.

It is assumed that the Bush administration's Karl Rove wanted a more moderate candidate, such as former Democrat-turned-Republican Norm Coleman, as the candidate. They believed he had a better chance in the lefty Twin Cities. Bush has been campaigning hard for Coleman.

Pawlenty is considered too socially conservative by the powers that be. Too bad. Pawlenty is exactly the kind of person the Range, and the rest of Minnesota, should be allowed to vote for. He will be heard from in the future. If not, that would be unfortunate for electoral politics in Minnesota – and nationally as well.

The Prairie Pundit Pontificates

Putting on my pundit prognostication hat, I predict Republican Norm Coleman will win the Senate race and Tim Penny the governorship of Minnesota. Nevertheless, Jesse Ventura may end up picking the person who will sit in the U.S. Senate seat once held by Paul Wellstone. That could be the case until all Democrat challenges make their way through court. We will see.

 

[bknight2602]

What I find intriguing is that a man out of politics as long as Walter Modale, gets anointed and immediately has nearly a twenty point lead? Is Minnesota Democratic or what?

 

[miles]

A couple of questions:

How should have Paul Wellstone's family and friends honored his life--a life dedicated to hardcore liberal politics, mind you-- and what gives you the authority to comment on a memorial they organized during a period of enormous grief?

Who has any right, for that matter?

Follow up questions: How do you stop a group of 20,000 emotionally-drained individuals from expressing their feelings, be it appropriately or otherwise? And finally, why would you want to?

Take your time. Your credibility is already suspect.

My credibilty? LMAO!

Are you so naive that you actually believe this wasn't a political circus? I'm not saying his family and friends don't have a right to grieve the way they want. I'm saying it was incredibly disrespectful ans slimy.

The Democrats used the death of a Senator to advance their political agenda. It was despicable.

 

[SINthysist]

The answers you seek BK, are in the long, long post above you and goes straight to miles credibility on the issue.

Most of Montana is rural Republican, but the two big population centers, and the mining districts, cause the state to go Democrat.

That's why I posted the stuff. To add some facts to the debate.

 

[phrodeau]

Um, that would be Minnesota, SIN.

I reviewed a video of the entire ceremony, and I don't think the Democratic party (or the DFL) were behind the derailing of events at all. I think it's all the doing of one man, Rick Kahn. Democrats are apologizing for his remarks, and I believe them. Mr. Kahn himself isn't talking.

Mark Wellstone had the crowd chanting "We will win", but that's hardly damning, and Sen. Tom Harkin focused on getting the crowd to "stand up" for what he felt Paul Wellstone stood for. Neither mentioned Mondale.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4408094.htm

 

[Guest]

Some of the people in the huge arena, packed with 20,000 mourners, were angry when they caught a glimpse of the Senator.

Disgust overcame them. They booed lustily, some of them shouting, "We don't want you here," and some shouting epithets.

And for the next few days, the GOP and right-wing pundits had a field day -- supporting the booers, saying that they spoke the truth, and that the Senator deserved all that was dished out and more.

Rush Limbaugh led the right-wing boo fest by having the man who led the booing on his program as Dittohead Hero Of The Day.

Newsmax, Matt Drudge Neal Boortz, Kathleen Parker, and GOP radio talk show hosts nationwide cheered on the booers, and attacked the Senator they booed.

What's wrong with this picture? Well nothing -- because the Senator being booed wasn't Trent Lott -- it was Hillary Clinton, about a year ago, at Madison Square Garden. at a huge concert honoring the heroic policemen and firefighters who gave their lives on September 11, 2001.

It seems that some of those in the audience thought that this upbeat yet solemn occasion should -- gasp! -- be an occasion for politics.

Hear! hear! said Rush and his clones, who booed right along with them.

So you see, folks, it's not the boos that matter to these right-wing thugs. It's who's getting booed. If it's Trent Lott being booed, it's a travesty. If it's Hillary Clinton being booed, it's an act of patriotism.

These people have no shame, no principles, no morals. They just want power. And will say anything, do anything to get it.

 

[SINthysist]

Whoops! NAILED ME!

Let's talk about Alan Page. Liberal Democrat who wanted the position. Name recognition as well as Mondale's. But he's black. Un-electable. He needs to have a talk with Condi Rice and Sir Charles Barkley...

 

[SINthysist]

Yeah Hillary. You got a point there. Too bad you were being booed BY YOUR OWN CONSTITUENCY!

The working men and women of America. The firefighters, the police, the REAL residents of New York.

With the enemy, though, it is a very good tactic to be able to display grace and composure. We are glad you did not throw an ashtray at anybody or utter a few choice racial epithets, for a change. It’s a good start! But you are NO ONE to lecture on class after your looting of the people’s house because you liked all the cool stuff there.

But you are right, turnabout is FAIR PLAY in politics...

How’s the book going?

I expected the smartest woman in America would surely have been able to earn ALL THAT MONEY BY NOW, unless, of course, you HAD ALREADY EARNED THE MONEY …