Mike Gravel hits on ‘Obama girl’
May 8th, 2008 – 10:38 AM by Dennis J. McGrathWhile Hillary Clinton tries to pry superdelegates away from Barack Obama, another presidential candidate, Mike Gravel, is trying to steal Obama’s Girl.
Yes, Gravel is still officially in the race. If you’ve forgotten, he’s the former U.S. Senator from Alaska — a Democrat who recently turned Libertarian. He produced some quirky videos early in the campaign, and now he’s featured in a new one, alongside Obama Girl. As an added bonus, he “totally learned” and performs the Soulja Boy dance.
Here’s Gravel’s website: http://www.gravel2008.us/
And here’s that offbeat Rock video:
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And some wonder why the Strib is failing………
Prison next for tile company owner who dodged $500k-plus in taxes
By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: May 8, 2008 - 8:15 AM
So,
What would a judge say about tax evasion?
Pay attention Al Franken fans…..
“You stole a lot of money,” U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson told Tovey, 40, of Elk River. “We trust citizens to do the right thing — pay their taxes. The government needs to enforce the law.
“When you don’t pay taxes, you pay the price.”
I love the Gravel videos. I’m glad he got a minor party to give him a platform to keep raving. I don’t want him to be president, but I like the way he engages in public discourse.
Mr. Grant, Tax Evasion is a serious, criminal charge.
Mr. Franken is not facing any indictment or investigation, & I think you ought to ask the editor if you may retract your insinuation to the contrary.
Of course, who cares about facts or particulars, right? Evasion includes intent. He declared all of his income, and intended to pay taxes on it.
He made our state an interest free loan, and will pay additional amounts for fees and penalties to the states where he owed back taxes.
His accountant proves a point about Franken’s even tempered and serious demeanor. For a guy who is supposedly angry all the time, he really hasn’t lashed out at the accountant.
He’s a senate candidate and If there were grounds for criminal investigation or indictment, it would be ongoing. The appointing authority is Republican, and we know how that works in the United States.
It’s slimy to defame people just because it serves a political end. I guess that’s just my opinion. There are plenty of legitimate beefs with that tax situation. But he intended to pay his taxes and he will pay the price for his accountant’s failures, not just financially, but politically as well.
You already weren’t going to vote for him, but someone probably will be persuaded by the slime.
But you have no choice, as our senior senator wouldn’t have won election to the Senate in the first place were it not for the intervention of fate, and he certainly isn’t going to win re-election.
Franken is more moderate on almost every issue than any other candidate in the race, DFL or otherwise. He appeals to Ron Paul republicans who care about state’s rights, and he appeals to fiscal conservatives who are tired of Bush and Coleman’s deficit spending. He also fails to offend moderates on the Iraq question, which no other candidate does.
He’s the clear winner. You have no choice but slime. But it won’t work, so save your dignity.
This is the kind of stuff the Strib’s political editor is spending time blogging about? Really? There’s nothing more substantive you could talk about than this? Really?
Dennis,
What did you think about the bs Rybak was spewing on live television?
Do you recall if you drove to work?
These are things I would remember.
Dennis,
What is the point of your blog?
I was out of town, and I look at this site today and there are the same comments from last week. Why not let posters select topics if your too lazy to throw out a new theme every couple of days. Your paper is failing miserably. Perhaps you should at least make an effort to post topics worth discussing.
If you’re just hanging on for retirement, shut it down and let someone else make a go of this site.
Tell your editors to wake up. Look at the number of comments on their waste of space site.
Are you people trying to fail?
If so, you’re doing a hell of a job.
Today is May 15, 2008.
You waste the people’s time about this topic that will not save one of the 8,000 homes per day going into foreclosure. You cover this topic that will not save the life of our brave military men and women serving in the Iraq including my cousin going back to Iraq for his second deployment after being badly injured during his first deployment. You cover this topic that will not help one senior citizen from falling into $2,850 gap in Medicare that forces them to go without life sustaining medications. You cover this topic while more Minnesotans have been moved from the middle class into the class of the working poor. You can and must do better. Darryl Stanton Candidate for United States Senate Vote September 9,2008 Stanton4people.com
It’s May 27th Dennis. Your last post was the 8th. Are you still with us?
Campaign says Obama made mistake in saying great-uncle helped liberate Nazi camp at Auschwitz
By CHRISTOPHER WILLS , Associated Press
Last update: May 28, 2008 - 1:07 AM
Well Dennis,
As long as we are sticking with the Obama theme, I’ll send you a couple of excerpts from his literary collection.
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ; ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.’
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Dennis,
I’m really looking forward to you insight concerning the GOP convention.
You do know it begins today, right?
June 2, the GOP convention was here, and I open up your great blog site to see an Obama reference from May 8.
Dennis,
What would you say you do there, (the Strib?)