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Coleman Takes New Job As Harvard Teaching Fellow
Eric Kleefeld | August 20, 2009, 2:36PM
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), who is a potential candidate for governor of his state after he (very) narrowly lost the 2008 Senate race to Democrat Al Franken, has now taken a new job as a teaching fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.
This doesn't necessarily mean Coleman won't run for governor, though, as he's publicly set a timeline of waiting until Spring 2010 to make his decision.
As Dave Weigel points out: "Revenge! Norm Coleman to take Al Franken's old job (sort of) at Harvard." Years ago, Franken had a teaching fellowship at Harvard, which he used to research and write the book that made him a hero among liberal activists, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
What's next? Maybe a new book from Coleman: Al Franken Is A Big Fat Idiot.
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notKeith
August 20, 2009 3:10 PM
Coleman should just change stripes again, and become a (blue dog) Democrat. He has no moral compass; it would work for him.
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Steaming Pile
August 20, 2009 3:11 PM
So I guess his car at Hahvahd would be the one with the Minnesota license plates. Should be easy enough to spot.
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leftyloosey
August 20, 2009 3:17 PM
I just cannot tell you how proud I am of Yale. Ha!
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slb
August 20, 2009 5:34 PM in reply to leftyloosey
Don't crow too loud -- Yale still has George W. Bush to live down. (Although, come to think of it, so does Harvard: W. is a Harvard MBA.)
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leftyloosey
August 21, 2009 2:13 AM in reply to slb
The whole country has Widdle Dub to live down. At least George W never played Baseball.
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EricR11
August 20, 2009 3:37 PM
This wasn't supposed to get out, right? He must have twittered it or something.
He's gonna love Cambridge, I'll tell you that. How much you want to wager that Sgt. Crowley will be on the active police detail in The Square his first day of classes?
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raincntry
August 20, 2009 3:47 PM
What is he going to teach? "How to run for Senate and win.....if your opponent is dead"
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Stiggs
August 20, 2009 4:05 PM in reply to raincntry
Some leaked meeting notes suggest that there are a few course ideas that are being thrown around. Hypocrisy and you: using situational reality to your advantage, Advanced vote suppression covering demographic statistics and On being a whiny little bitch being the three strongest contenders. Coleman was pushing for Election by the justice system: a winning strategy but the Harvard political science department wasn't buying his arguments either.
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MAX TARDCORE
August 20, 2009 4:20 PM
Yankees, Twins, or Red Sox?
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leftyloosey
August 21, 2009 2:15 AM in reply to MAX TARDCORE
Cubs?
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Apphouse50
August 20, 2009 5:13 PM
He'll just hang with the Harvard Republican Club types and have few if any problems. We're used to seeing GOP big shots around Harvard, lots of their kids go there. It can be downright amusing eavesdropping on some of their conversations at Au Bon Pain and other Harvard Square locations. He'll fit right in. I hope I get to come face to face with him, and will start practicing my best sneer.
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Kevin Cassidy
August 20, 2009 6:34 PM
Al Franken got his political career started when Harvard's Kennedy School gave him a fellowship and a research team. Maybe Norm is looking to start from scratch.
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bluebell
August 20, 2009 9:18 PM in reply to Kevin Cassidy
But Al actually graduated from Harvard.
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leftyloosey
August 21, 2009 2:16 AM in reply to bluebell
Ha!
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Problem Is
August 20, 2009 7:34 PM
Seminar Announcement:
"How to Launder Campaign Cash Through Your Wife the Blonde Actress' Talent for Insurance Consulting"
Professor Norman Coleman, JD.
See Picture Here:
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv133/problemis/NormColemanClassofPotHead.png
Professor Norman Coleman is a graduate of Hofstra University. He attended Brooklyn Law College and University of Iowa Law School.
Originally a New Yorker before carpet bagging to Minnesota, the former Senator was a pot head, "long hair hippie type pinko fag" (Lyric courtesy Charlie Daniels) during his college days...
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Suznaz
August 20, 2009 7:54 PM
Hey, at least Norm's leaving Hofstra alone...
and yes he was "a pot head, "long hair hippie type pinko fag" (Lyric courtesy Charlie Daniels) during his college days..." AND head of the radical (at least for a suburban, mostly Jewish University, mostly commuter students) SDS group. He might have been a Democrat but he was already a weiner.
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VLaszlo
August 20, 2009 7:59 PM
What a disgrace. Harvard shows itself willing to accept absolute slime. Tell us again how George W. Bush got a serious investment from the corrupt Harvard endowment fund.
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ivy22
August 20, 2009 9:21 PM
Harvard took in Jessie Ventura when he ended his governor gig. Now Norm is going there? Maybe Tim Pawlenty will be next. Is Harvard becoming the great burial ground for Minnesota politicians?
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Lucidity
August 21, 2009 1:15 AM
Texas Tech University must have passed on him. Norm Coleman and Alberto Gonzales would have made a mighty teaching team.
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ivy22
August 21, 2009 9:36 AM
Wow! First Harvard, now taking a job heading up a shiny new right wing think tank. Norm is a brainiac.
Words to the wise, Norm: check that the drain plug is in at your new 'think tank'. Wouldn't want all those great ideas that you come up with, to circle and go down the drain. That would be such a waste of your tremendous thinking powers.
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