Comments on: Senate Passes Resolution Honoring Paul Wellstone

By: frenchfries

frenchfries — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:50:09 +0000

A good man.

And sadly his name will also always be connected to the most shameful act of political propaganda in recent years, when the right took his funeral from us to elect one of them. I have an urge to spit in contempt every time I think about it.

Sorry, Senator. I should get over it and remember you for the man you have been.

By: mighty aphrodite

mighty aphrodite — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:53:39 +0000

Leave it to DICK Durbin…..”worrying” about Senator Wellstones’ re-election? In Minnesota???? Puhleeeezzz………..

By: happyhappyjoyjoyrepublican

happyhappyjoyjoyrepublican — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:01:34 +0000

By: GroovyTimes

GroovyTimes — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:57:53 +0000

That conspiracy theory about Wellstone’s death is BS. As liberal as I am, I think that these retarded theories about “Bush planning 9/11″ and “Wellstone murdered” need to stop. The author in that article gave no evidence for his claim.

By: John Deek

John Deek — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:16:12 +0000

# 3.. lawyers ruin peoples lives, not their engines

(im a law student so its ok for to me make fun of myself)

By: Jon Morgan

Jon Morgan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:20:46 +0000

The best way to honor Paul and Sheila would be to continue the work they started and were engaged in when they died. Starting with the passage of the mental health parity bill (which would require insurers to stop discriminating against mental illnesses and people with them) in the first days of the 110th Congress. Then move aggressively forward on the big, bold, progressive agenda Paul laid out over his time in the Senate; universal health care, clean elections, stronger labor laws, real environmental protection, good affordable education and child care for everyone, a welfare program that seeks to reduce poverty instead of kicking people off the rolls, protections for consumers and real checks on corporate power, peace and diplomacy instead of war and militarism…in short, things that would allow every American to live with dignity and without fear of unfair tragedy, things that would make America live up to its promise of equal opportunity, and things that give us reason to hope for ourselves, our country, our children, and our planet.

That’s what we should all be working for to honor the memory of the Wellstones.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak. -Paul Wellstone

By: Jaded Prole

Jaded Prole — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:01:28 +0000

I doubt that he was assassinated but I’m sure many rejoiced at his death.

Wellstone was a rare, authentic man of the people. His absence leaves a gaping hole that hhas not yet been filled.

The best way to honor him is to honor his legacy with progressive legislation and struggle against right-wing criminal hypocrisy, not empty claptrap.

By: klyde

klyde — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:58:28 +0000

Wellstone was murdered!

By: greenback

greenback — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:44:43 +0000

Why don’t they honor him with an authentic investigation into his timely murder. The Capitol is revolting by trying to honor Wellstone. I’m certain Paul was assasinated and the likely murders and enablers are throwing it our face. America is going further down a dark road. Snap out of it sheeple, the world is yours.

By: Cragg Myre

Cragg Myre — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:41:55 +0000

tis but a step

By: Cragg Myre

Cragg Myre — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:40:50 +0000

Oh ye man cannot you see?

thought has no color.

balance ye mind

join thy future

the past a dream

come with me

divorce the matter

from thought

By: lw

lw — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:56:04 +0000

You know, it is OK if it does because that is what I believe and that is who I am. The people of Minnesota would expect nothing less from me.

That’s called “INTEGRITY”. It is most unfortunate that it seems to be in such short supply.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:51:52 +0000

I am just reading the comments, and I see that I repeated #5 Fuzzwald. Sorry – I don’t do that on purpose — but it does show that we think alike.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:50:05 +0000

The nation suffered more than the loss of life when Wellstone died – we lost a man with a conscience who would have left a very positive influence in government.
The good die young — while the likes of Dick Cheney go on and on and on.

By: Dan W.

Dan W. — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:32:29 +0000

I read somewhere the Democrat/Progressive leaders are TWICE as likely to die in “accidental” plane crashes than Republican/Conservative leaders. (I don’t remember the source, sorry!)

Since I doubt that the weather cares about political affiliations, I begin to feel suspicious whenever I hear about losses like this.

By: Cragg Myre

Cragg Myre — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:52:02 +0000

And mankind has become polluted once again, as the days of the Romans the decay comes from the top and all suffer henceforthly.

Why for not can they see?

Aye, for the love of humanity if their is a higher power I beg you for attention and to restore these politicians lost and materialistically polluted virtue!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:44:18 +0000

My son voted for Paul in the primary. I have always been thankful that he could vote for him. Paul Wellstone was a unique individual. You knew he cared. His family cared. I was at a luncheon with his wife. She agreed to attend because the luncheon honored youth who volunteered. What a tragedy to have lost those two people, their daughter and the staff that worked with them. It still breaks my heart.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:29:18 +0000

I’m sorry that Senator Durbin forgot to mention that Marcia, Paul and Shelia’ s daughter, also died.

By: Erroll

Erroll — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:25:03 +0000

In all likelihood, if Paul Wellstone were alive today, he, unlike his senate colleagues, would be advocating that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq as quickly as possible, realizing, justifiably, that the troops are being blown up and killed for no justifiable reason whatsoever. If only his fellow Minnesotan, Al Franken, felt the same way.

By: Random Rightie

Random Rightie — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:01:28 +0000

#3, could have been an EMP weapon as well, although simplicity is always an advantage. In any case “poor weather” isn’t exactly a convincing explanation.