{"id":195875,"date":"2008-06-08T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/al-franken-gets-dfl-party-endorsement-for-senate\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:43:00","slug":"al-franken-gets-dfl-party-endorsement-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/al-franken-gets-dfl-party-endorsement-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Franken Gets DFL Party Endorsement for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/08\/us\/politics\/08franken.html\">required 60% on the first ballot<\/a>.  There is still a primary in September, but absent a dead girl\/live boy<sup>*<\/sup> revelation, he is the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that this decade is all about him, Al Franken.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that he kicks that phony Norm Coleman, who is proof of that old adage, &#8220;If you can&#8217;t fool all of the people all of the time, you should start breeding them for stupidity.&#8221;<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Edwin Edwards, when discovering that he would be facing David Duke in the Louisiana governor&#8217;s race, said that the the only way that he would lose were if he were, &#8220;caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Dave Sim, in his comic book Cerebus, some time around issue 20.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He got the required 60% on the first ballot. There is still a primary in September, but absent a dead girl\/live boy* revelation, he is the nominee. I guess that this decade is all about him, Al Franken. Here&#8217;s hoping that he kicks that phony Norm Coleman, who is proof of that old adage, &#8220;If &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}