Funny stuff about Franken!

[Cassandra]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/24603798/the_last_recount

" But rather than throwing red meat to the assembled volunteers, Franken is actually trying to calm them down. Walking back and forth, he leads them in a mock war chant that tweaks the old red-blue outrage:

"What do we want?" Franken shouts.
"PATIENCE!" the volunteers respond.
"When do we want it?" Franken asks.
"NOW!" the crowd demands.

Franken turns to former Clinton adviser Paul Begala, whom he has invited to the meeting to talk about the recount. "You like that?" he says, beaming. "It's the only dada version of that meme."
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Like Obama — and in sharp contrast to other 2008 contenders like John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton, who were all wound so asshole-tight and were in such desperate psychological need of victory that they went to extraordinary rhetorical extremes to denounce their opponents and their supporters — Franken is not imbuing the process with unnecessary drama."

I had forgotten that it was Coleman who lost to Ventura.