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Obama: "I Look Forward To Working With Senator-Elect Franken"
President Obama has released this statement on Sen.-elect Al Franken's (D-MN) much-litigated and now final victory in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race:
"I look forward to working with Senator-Elect Franken to build a new foundation for growth and prosperity by lowering health care costs and investing in the kind of clean energy jobs and industries that will help America lead in the 21st century."
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I think this is what you call a "tipping point."
June 30, 2009 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sniff. The election of 2008 is really over, isn't it? And so soon. . .
June 30, 2009 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll look forward in a second. But one last Bronx Cheer to Coleman's camp for throwing TheUptake.org out of the press conference. The Uptake has been covering this story better than any other outlet. Luckily, a local station let them stream their feed.
Good riddance, Norm and fiends!
June 30, 2009 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just another day at the zoo.
The two antagonists scream at each other, jump up and down, pound their chests, inflate their jaws, spread their feces dangerously close to the other. Until intimidation.
Then the beta critter assumes the supplicant position to the alpha, the onlookers nod approvingly, and life continues.
We humans call it cooperation.
June 30, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
June 30, 2009 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course I did, as did anyone who visits this site. Sorry if you did not gather the allegory. Continuing, the post-campaign campaign could be considered a primal battle for supremacy carried out through lawyers -- the human equivalent of displays of potential power -- with the ultimate loser rolling over supine.
De gustibus non est disputandum. Political tactics by Republicans remind me all the more of these fight/flight animal behaviors.
June 30, 2009 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like O's statement. As usual he showed tremendous restraint. Nowhere in there does he say "And about f*** time."
June 30, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink