{"id":2597,"date":"2008-05-21T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2008-05-21T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:07:17","slug":"we-need-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Al Franken, Senate Candidate<\/p>\n

From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, common schmuck<\/p>\n

Re:\u00a0 Profile in Courage<\/p>\n

Mr. Franken,<\/p>\n

It has to look bad now; your tax problems are becoming a pop-culture punch line to the point where even some of the people who drank your kool-aid<\/a> are trying to toss you under the bus.<\/p>\n

This has to be the dark night of your political soul.<\/p>\n

But I urge you, Al – fight the tide!\u00a0 Take those who are trying to throw you under the bus, and body slam them like you did that senior citizen who was heckling Howard Dean<\/a>.\u00a0 Rhetorically, I mean.<\/p>\n

Let’s face it, Al – you were “swiftboated” [*]!<\/p>\n

Because if you depart the race, what is the DFL left with?\u00a0 A dozey addlepated pseudoprofessor from a “peace studies” “program” (St. Thomas adopted the program because it didn’t fit National American University’s standards of academic rigor), and yet another lawyer.\u00a0 Norm Coleman’s a lawyer, for crying out loud; they’re practically kissing cousins!<\/p>\n

So you have to stay in this campaign, Al.\u00a0 You have <\/strong>to!\u00a0 Because…er, you owe it to the children!\u00a0 Only you<\/em> have what New York needs.<\/p>\n

Minnesota<\/em>. Only you have what Minnesota <\/em>needs.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n

Anyway – stay the course, Al! The Strib’s hard at work gundecking all that “tax” folderol, anyway – you can ride this out, with a little help from your friends at 425 Portland<\/strike> (occupant moved, no forwarding address)<\/p>\n

You can do it, Al!<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

[*] “swift-boat-ing<\/strong>, v. To tell inflammatory, incriminating stories about Democrats that happen to be documentably completely true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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