(St. Paul Mayor) Chris Coleman: "Oh, God, you didn't just say that."

[Brickbat]

Current St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman giggles through a candidates forum. Jump to 1:40 if you want to get to the "oh, God" comment.

[cui bono]

1. Is the best St. Paul can hope for???

[Brickbat]

2. Chris Coleman is a fine mayor, and he has the race well in hand.

Obviously.

[cui bono]

5. He better!

[charlie and algernon]

3. Sounds like he starts to say "oh fuck" before catching himself and switching to "Oh God"

[Brickbat]

4. His expression looks like Martin Freeman as Tim Canterbury right then. Hilarious.

[beerandjesus]

6. AWESOME video!

Damn, those people are incredible!

Swear to God, the worst thing about the baggers is that crazy now wields power. Crazy is entertaining as hell... as long as everyone realizes crazy is crazy. I was a huge Alex Jones fan before the baggers "mainstreamed" him.......

[russspeakeasy]

7. Thank you. I needed that..

[madamesilverspurs]

8. I'll be sharing that.

Our local campaigns have teabaggers, frackers, and secessionists, but none of the forums have gotten quite that rambunctious. Oy!

[Brickbat]

9. Sharon is a perennial candidate, and the other guy is someone with no experience.

The one guy who's even slightly legit didn't get any screen time in this clip, other then a crabby face.

[MineralMan]

10. I don't think Chris Coleman is much worried about this election.

And with good reason.

[Brickbat]

11. I love how he takes exactly the right tone.

It must suck to have to go through the motions of something like that, but he handles it well.

[MineralMan]

12. I like Chris Coleman.

I always seem to get into a conversation with him at caucuses and district conventions. I'm not sure why that always seems to happen. It started with the very first precinct caucus meetings I went to. I was standing outside of the high school where it was happening, and he walked up to me, introduced himself, and we had a conversation for about five minutes, mostly about fishing in local lakes.

Since then, he always seems to show up where I am at those events, and we have some conversation. He's a great guy, affable, and able to converse on many subjects. Good Mayor, too, for Saint Paul.

[Brickbat]

14. I've had the same experience. He's truly a good guy and a good mayor.

[Vashta Nerada]

13. Sharon is crazy.

WTF?

I live too far from The Cities to see this every day, but it was hilarious.

[MineralMan]

15. Every campaign needs a Sharon in it.

They provide the humor that is so often lacking.

OTOH, there are also some perennial candidates who are of another stripe and who bring only ugliness to campaigns. We have plenty of those around, too.

[Vashta Nerada]

16. Oh I know that.

Michele Bachmann is my congresswoman.

*shudder*

[MineralMan]

17. Oh, Ick! Well, she'll be gone after 2014.

I hope the district can manage to elect a Democrat. I'll be helping however I can.

[Vashta Nerada]

18. I campaigned for Graves last year.

I even got to meet Bill Clinton when he stopped by to throw in his support for Graves.

[MineralMan]

19. Cool. He almost won, too.

It's a pity he didn't. I wonder who's going to end up being the DFL candidate in 2014.