Al Franken can kiss my ass

Mood: cheeky
My Hebrew National All Beef with Al Franken of Minnesota and Air America Radio: he's always carrying on about Paul Wellstone of Minnesota as one of his heroes. And he's always talking about Wellstone's funeral, blah, blah, blah. Well, get over it, the man's dead. I'm not going to disparage Wellstone, but obviously he could have done a better job of picking his charter flights.

What really cheeses me off is that he never mentions Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, the only Democrat who had the guts to stand up to Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War, and stop LBJ cold in his tracks. "Clean for Gene": Eugene McCarthy and the Presidential Election of 1968 Nobody else was willing to do this, not Bobby Kennedy, not Hubert Humphrey, not any other of those liberal icons of the time.

You would think Franken would feel some sort of gratitude towards McCarthy, since Franken avoided the war, although now Al's on some sort of weirdo guilt trip because he did. Apparently not. McCarthy is my hero because he stood up to the system and lived to tell about it. The streets were on fire in a real death waltz, and this poet made an honest stand, even though he wound up wounded and not even dead, down in "Jungleland" I'll take a live hero from Minnesota over a dead one, any day.