What's Been and What's Ben

This video is why I am proud to have voted for Senator Al Franken.

John McCain, 2008 republican presidential nominee and contender for Senate Kids Should Stay Off My Lawn Committee, showed how senile he is when he couldn’t remember back to earlier that day when somebody was cut off by Franken for going over time. It is doubtful that Franken didn’t get some joy out of cutting off Lieberman, 2000 democratic vice-presidential nominee,  who has been intentionally stalling a vote on the Healthcare reform bill. Senator Lieberman is from Connecticut which is home to a large portion of the health insurance industry. Senator Franken is from my home state of Minnesota which is also home to UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurance company in the world. Sen. Franken has the advantage that he can raise campaign money from somebody other than large corporate interests.

I still have the Kerry/Edwards presidential election sign that was signed by Al Franken in 2004 at a fiery speech at the Minnesota State Fair that hung on my wall all four years of college. I also got to shake his hand at the Minnesota State Fair in 2008 when he was running for his senate seat he won by 0.011% of the vote. I will always remember accidentally reverse-stalking him where it seemed he would show up everywhere I went from the University of Minnesota building, to his radio interview, and finally when I was standing in the middle of the street eating corn and he walked by.