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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Franken is f ing smart
he needs to run in 2020
just a brilliant mind
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-al-franken-brilliantly-connect-the-dots-on-why-trump-took-so-long-to-fire-flynn/
Were trying to put a puzzle together here, everybody, Franken said. And maybe, just maybe, he didnt get rid of a guy who lied to the vice president, who got paid by the Russians, who went on Russia Today because there are other people in his administration who met secretly with the Russians and didnt reveal it until lateruntil they were caught.
just the way he is so knowledgeable, knows what he is talking about,
SunSeeker
(53,157 posts)moda253
(615 posts)And yes he would make a great President.
sheshe2
(86,096 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Who'd have thought he'd be a senator and that he's not only that smart, but good at articulating his arguments. But then, he's a writer.
He's so impressive.
stuffmatters
(2,575 posts)Forty plus years and going strong for now many generations.
And first with the Cabinet hearings, especially piercing the DeVos & Sessions posturing of competence, equanimity etc, and now here...Franken is simply one of the sharpest, unflappable Senators. Whitehouse has been extraordinary as well in these hearings.
lutherj
(2,541 posts)The darker interpretation is that what Franken and Yates perceive to be a profound liability, team Trump saw as a risky asset, something they were willing to take a gamble on in the giddy aftermath of "winning" the election. But Franken is right. If Flynn gets shot down, it pretty much takes down the whole administration with it. Republicans just hate it when Democrats try to steer them right. Because in their minds, anything a Democrat says is ipso facto absolutely one hundred percent 180 degrees to nowhere wrong. Like when the Clinton administration tried to warn Cheney and Bush about Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. What a bunch of stupid wusses, they thought. What a bunch of liberal panty-waists. Good thing the adults are taking charge.