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It's back! Return of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"!
I've missed it so...Welcome home ... MINNEAPOLIS -- Stepping back into the campaign spotlight, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) came to Minnesota tonight to urge the election of comedian-commentator-candidate Al Franken to the Senate."Al Franken was taking on the vast right-wing conspiracy before other people even admitted it existed," she told a crowd of 2,000 supporters on the University of Minnesota campus, urging them to give her rival, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a filibuster-proof margin in the Senate. "Al Franken, with your help, can be our 60th vote." Besides you, and your minions, who might those "other people" be? Clinton, after stumping in Florida yesterday and Omaha earlier today on behalf of Obama, demonstrated she is still one of the prime draws among Democrats, even in a state where she was trounced by Obama in the Feb. 5 caucuses. More than 1,500 supporters crammed into the campus's McNamara Alumni Center, with another 600 in an overflow room and outside, where a massive big-screen television simulcast the rally. Franken aides said the only rally of theirs that compared in size was former vice president Al Gore's appearance earlier this month, which 1,500 people appeared. I wonder if it snowed? In late September Clinton -- for the first time this year -- opened up the checkbook of her political action committee, issuing $75,000 to House and Senate candidates, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission yesterday. Since resuming fundraising for Hill PAC in July, Clinton has raised more than $1.1 million. Earlier this decade she used Hill PAC as her vehicle for making contributions to key candidates in politically important states, plotting her course toward this year's national campaign. Her giving money away? Oooooooh, the price they'll pay for that. Should've took the deal with Satan instead, folks. Less risky. In backing Franken tonight, Clinton gave a full-throated endorsement of someone who earlier this year was facing allegations that a 2000 guest column he penned for Playboy Magazine was demeaning toward women. Franken said the piece -- with a headline of "Porn-O-Rama" -- was meant as satire. But she's still married to the guy who"did not have sex with that wimmen", so...what the hell. Clinton has known Franken since the early 1990s and made fun of his comedic past but said it was the first-time candidate's way of telling "truth through jokes. Sure, he's been a comedian, and occasionally he's even been funny," she joked. Of all the blatant lies I've heard this campaign season, that could be the worst... Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-23 |
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