A copy of the decision.

The GOP must be beside itself right about now, trying to figure out the next best delay tactic. Colman is nothing but a tool for the GOP at this point.

PS. For those with strong stomachs, tune in to Hannity on KSL and listen to his thoughts re the subject: absolutely priceless!

Coleman concedes to Franken. Now he can focus on the FBI’s investigation into his ties to businessman Nasser Kazeminy.

The ghost of Paul Wellstone scoffs in your general direction.

What could possibly be more laughable than the republican obstructionists, whose mock patriotism is born of a possible loss of arms-sale revenue?

Ken you are pathetic and your photoshopping should be reserved for the malls.

You don’t seem to mind stolen elections when your guy is the beneficiary. All the crying and moaning over the 2000 and 2004 elections now seem mighty hypocritical.

Ken:

Are you just stirring the pot to see who bites, or is there something of substance in your comment?

Comparing the shenanigans and machinations behind the stolen 2000 and 2004 elections to the steady and methodical steps taken to resolve the Minnesota election is comparing apples to oranges.

It is time for you to recognize the damage done to America by the Bush administration and the fact that the stupid and susceptible among us has reduced in number, at least for the time being. You might consider making the switch, too.

Or maybe Norm is feeling the pinch of the FBI investigation and starting to crack under the pressure.

Comparing the shenanigans and machinations behind the stolen 2000 and 2004 elections to the steady and methodical steps taken to resolve the Minnesota election is comparing apples to oranges.

Really now, James?

How so?

Bush graduated from Yale and Harvard….so what’s your point?

I don’t know Richard, sounds like legalese for no more stolen elections to me.

I suspect there’s a difference between Cum Laude and the gifting of degrees to sons of the powerful and rich for C- work and cheerleading.

But that’s just me.

Geeze, jd, hasn’t cliff told you before not to walk around politics with your eyes wide shut? It really is apples and oranges, and with a little thought and retrospect, you will realize why. Give it a try, I know you can do it.

Fabulous the way you dance around the question.

Do you ever give a direct answer, James?

jd:

Having both attended and taught undergraduates at such universities, I can assure you from personal experience that C and C- level work is considered near, if not actually, failing. it is a gift grade that, among other things, allows the tuition money, especially from legacy students, to keep flowing. You are well advised, yet again, to stop making excuses for George W. Bush.

Becky:

Aside from the general “stupid and susceptible” tendencies of the nation’s populace as pointed out by Norman Mailer circa 2004, I add the following dity from the Vanity fair article: “It Came From Wasilla.”

Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises questions that will not soon go away. What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded? What does her prominence say about the importance of having (or lacking) a record of achievement in public life? Why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party—long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics—keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was casual about the truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency? Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics—with a fine appreciation of life’s injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor—ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?

These are certainly thought provoking questions – applicable to Bush just as much to Palin – that should keep folks like Ken Bingham awake at night, wondering just how they could have fallen into the same mindset – stupid and susceptible!

If I can’t dance, I want no part in it.

Gift grade or passing, I do not look up to such a low-set bar. Usually, I simply hop over it.

Somewhere along the way, I fell into the trap of envisioning ‘best and brightest’, not – He, whose father had connections.

So – I take it that none of you folks voted for John Kerry…

To answer “why select Palin” – because she excites the “base”. Much in the way that a “thoughtful, concerned*, aloof, partial-minority, lefty professor” excited the Dem Base.

Of course, given many of his policy decisions, it’s becoming pretty clear that they were “stupid and susceptible” too. I think that the story of Cliff’s neice illustrates that very well.

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“Obama Breaks Silence on Gaza, Voices ‘Deep Concern’ Over Civilian Deaths”–headline, Ha’aretz, Jan. 7
“Obama Voices Concern About Freed Guantanamo Inmates”–headline, Reuters, Feb. 2
“Obama Voices Concern About Pakistan”–headline, New York Times, April 30
“Obama Expresses Concern for Tissainayagam”–headline, TamilNet.com, May 2
“Obama: Long-Term Joblessness a Concern”–headline, CNN.com, May 20
“Obama Says North Korea Nuclear Test a ‘Grave Concern’ “–headline, Reuters, May 25
“Obama to ‘Voice Concerns’ in Egypt Speech”–headline, Hill, May 29
“Obama Concerned at Sentence of Journalists in NKorea”–headline, Agence France-Presse, June 8
“Obama Names Video Games as Health Concern in Speech to A.M.A.”–headline, GamePolitics.com, June 15
“Obama Has ‘Deep Concerns’ About Iran’s Election”–headline, Newsweek Web site, June 16
“Obama Concern About Oil Speculation Unchanged-W.House”–headline, Reuters, June 18
“Obama Expresses Deep Concern Over Honduras Coup”–headline, Deutsche Presse Agentur, June 28

jd:

You make yourself look like an idiot when you compare Palin favorably to either Obama or John Kerry. We all know that you will retire to your grave making excuses for GWB. But Palin, too? Please, stop, just stop!

jd:

As I requested previously: stop, just stop. The barrel laughs from deep within are starting to hurt!

Gosh, who da thunk you’d actually start making excuses for Palin. Wasn’t it hard enough doing the same just for GWB?

jd:

As they say: “sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.”

huh??