So Al Franken is is running for the senate. Apparently, as a writer for Saturday Night Live, he wrote some naughty things that offend people. In response to Frankengate, as I like to call it, his campaign manager said:
"At the time he didn't realize how it would affect him later in life. He wouldn't do it again today."
Let me get this straight. Your candidate wrote offensive things several years ago, and now that he is running for office he suddenly has an epiphany and realizes that what he wrote might adversely affect voters' opinion of him, so now he regrets it? I know- all politicians try to distance themselves from previous statements, even His Holiness Saint Barack of Obama, but... wow, I've never heard one say it so bluntly: "I would have never said it had I realized I would one day run for the Senate..." I can just imagine his future press releases as a senator:
"I would have never accepted that bribe if I knew people would find out about it."
"I thought that woman was my secretary, not a female escort..."
"I would have never made fun of that retarded person if I knew he could understand what I was saying."
Sunday, June 08, 2008
I wouldn't have done it if I had known people would find out about it...."
Posted by Nick at 5:05 PM
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Oops, I just realized I created a straw man. That quote is by one of his supporters, not anyone affiliated with the campaign. Seeing how that takes the wind out of my post, I'll let it slide. And its not as if intentionally misquoting someone will ever come back to bite me...
Oh yeah? I remember you wouldn't go to school without your mother! But I'm sure you wouldn't have done that if you knew you would one day be a teacher! I wonder what your students would say now!
hee hee of course.
Stuart Smalley is running for the senate?
I also remember you having to have mom escort you to class. Until about the 5th grade. And thats....OK.
I've never told anyone this, but on my first day of grad school in 2004 my mom secretly drove down and accompanied me to class. She even answered a few questions correctly until the professor kicked her out.
Dude I know for a fact she was safe and sound in Edmonds having me ask about a certain black ballerina...
Oops, forgot to call you on your birthday and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Are you 30 yet?
I still have 1 blessed year of my twenties left.
Oh yeah! Happy B-day Nick! I'm such a loser, I always forget birthdays. I forgot Eric's too and will probably forget Jen's!
Thanks for making me laugh!! Jen~ The part where you wrote, And that's......OK really made me laugh the hardest!!!
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