The coleman-Al Franken race was a classic struggle over good and evil. Al Franken, the good guy, had to wage war against the newspapers, the right wing hate radio mouthpieces, and the banks of America and Minnesota. He had to overcome slurs and slanders that reach the homes of millions of Mini-sotans and if being called a jerk by a premier movie critic like Michael Medved isn’t effective, there were the slurs of the Limpboughs, Annie get your gun Coulters, Fox, etc.; so, not only did Franken have to go through the gauntlet with them, he also had to survive the Republican Party dirty tricks in funding their candidates and funding dirty politics which left him at a great disadvantage. But most of all, he had to have his good name and his shining humouorous armour dragged through the mud. If he looks a little pale or even white, our hero has gone through an epic battle with the DARK SIDE. Putting it simply, he was smeared every day by the Republicans, by Hate radio, By FAIR and BALANCED fox NEWS, and the propoganda machine run by Dick Cheney who thinks nothing of shooting his friends in the face and Honest George who never told a lie.

Al Franken had to raise money from the people, stingy misers like me. How he did this is beyond me but Coleman had all of his sources like lobbyists, bankers, and corporations. This micky mouse race for Mini-sotans heart does point to the need to stop using lobbyist money to run elections. You can bet that the lobbyists passed all of the war funding bills in violation of the UN Charter and the Briand Kellog Pact and against the Will of the people. I have no doubt that each of our congressmen and women were forced to vote for the bill by lobbyists who owned them and controlled this vote and every other vote that comes before them. I have no doubt that the election process is controlled by the Banks, AIPAC, and hundreds of other lobbyists and that the people’s will and money is not a factor. In short, this is what Al Franken fought against and won and this is why it was an epic battle. But, to complete this revolution, we the people need to take over the financing of elections through our taxes. We have abrogated our duty to eachother and to the Rule of Law by allowing the US government to be run by the rich. It is time to stand behind Al Franken, gosh darn it.