The world’s “most famous freshman congressman.”
By on Mar 6th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
The world’s “most famous freshman congressman.”
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who two months ago became the first Muslim sworn into Congress, “has plans to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top State Department officials to talk about showcasing his story as part of their public diplomacy efforts in the Muslim world.” Already, the State Department’s overseas press bureau has profiled Ellison three times. “I’m willing to do whatever I can to make some friends for America,” Ellison said. “It’s a very positive development,” said Voice of America’s Faiz Rehman, a native of Pakistan. “He is the most famous freshman congressman in the world.”
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Sean Hannity’s head exploding in 3….2…..1…..
March 6th, 2007 at 3:26 pmAny way we can make more international friends right now, the better. We know dead eyes Rice can’t do it on her own.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:28 pmCalling on Virgil Goode…
March 6th, 2007 at 3:29 pmglenn beck’s in hiding….
March 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pmAlso makes him the only Honest congressman
March 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pmSomehow electing one Muslim representative is overshadowed by the enormous death and destruction we’ve caused in the ME…
March 6th, 2007 at 3:32 pmJust sayin
Muslims get Ellison
Israel gets Lieberman
Muslims win….Muslims win!!
March 6th, 2007 at 3:35 pmWill “the enemy” concentrate on the fact that a Muslim was elected or the issue the bigots on the right took with his using a non christian book for his photo op?
The other side is listening apparently
March 6th, 2007 at 3:36 pmAmerica would have lots of friends if It only It Jailed The worlds biggest mass murderer of women and children by Shapnel
March 6th, 2007 at 3:38 pmEllison is from my State and yes, I voted for him. This man is very sharp and has good values. What I appreciate most is the fact that he actually seems to stand up for what he believes. Furthermore, he seems to actually take true positions and back them by voting accordingly. I fully support out government using him to reach out to the Muslim world. I think he would do a wonderful job!
March 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pmWhat?!? Michelle Bachmann isn’t the most famous?!? Looks like Michelle will have to find something even more bizarre to do or say.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:41 pmR2 ~ Good for U
March 6th, 2007 at 3:43 pmI wonder how many Republicans will get on the wrong side of Ellison before he becomes president.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:43 pm“He is the most famous freshman congressman in the world.â€
But….but…I thought I was the most famous freshman in the world….
**sniff**
March 6th, 2007 at 3:44 pmCongerspersona, Mistress Z ~ You still da best frosh o’ the year round here!
March 6th, 2007 at 3:46 pm#10 Roger_Roger
Ellison is from my State and yes, I voted for him. This man is very sharp and has good values.
Roger, you’re a frickin’ enigma. I voted for him, too. I voted for someone else in the primary. But, he’s turned out to be a much better congressman than I had expected.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:51 pmCongerspersona, Mistress Z ~ You still da best frosh o’ the year round here!
Comment by RUCerious
You’re the bestest, RUC.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:52 pm#11 VerbalKint
Bachmann would be the most infamous. She’s got other ‘mosts’, too. None of them good.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:55 pm#16 Again, the biggest thing I look for these days is canidates I can trust to do what they say. At this point, I don’t even care if I disagree with them on every single issue in the world. It is refreshing to see an elected official go to Washington and actually do what they said they would. I wish more would be like that. We have have a much better country if they all voted their conscience instead of voting for what would help there party gain more power (often times hurting and even killing Americans). Ellison currently is my man. I hope he stays this way and doesn’t get into the crappy political power game so many on both sides of the isle are actively engaged in.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:01 pmAmerica would have lots of friends if It only It Jailed The worlds biggest mass murderer of women and children by Shapnel
Comment by Tobey Tall
Tell me Tobey, are you going to call for Blair to be jailed as well, because he is just as guilty?
Why has Blair not been arrested in your backyard, the UK?
March 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmJust saying…..
Civilization & War Rant
Bush is not responsible for the war in Iraq. Al Gore said during his campaign against Bush II that Bush I should have finished the job; and we never tire of pretending these days that the Clinton-Gore government was not attacking Iraq…. they were, regularly and lethally. War is inherent to civilization; and that is why we’ll have more and more of it, and why it will eventually percolate from the peripheries populated by Dark Others into our suburbs.
Everything we have that we list in our catalogue of civilization is forged out of fraud, theft, and murder. The cities of the world are built up on fraud, theft, and murder. Show me the exception, and I’ll take it back.
The fine woods and metals and animal guts that make the orchestras, the stones and steel and trees for our libraries, the fabric and workmanship of our clothing, and the food displayed strategically along our supermarket shelves… they all require war. They are taken from cultures who first refuse to cooperate, then who are forced to cooperate or be depopulated.
The expansive and expanding heaps of technomass — of asphalt and glass and plastic and paint and shiny right-angles — are scraped out of hillsides and coastlines, with the corpses of biomes and simpler cultures left behind as the mizzens of this wretched thing called civilization. The more this disease has spread, the more it has manifested and magnified its most acute symptom: war.
Technology is driven by scarcity, and scarcity by pillage, and new technology to correct for the iatrogenesis of the last technology. This is not a mark of superiority, but the cascading catastrophe of power seeking the enslavement of first women, then slaves and colonies and nature…
Conquest is a necessity to continue civilization. How long would this country last as it is without the oil from abroad? What if those abroad said, No? Be real, be realistic before you answer this question with pious abstractions. How long would things stay “stable” hereabouts if the supermarket shelves were suddenly bare? If the shutters went up on WalMart’s windows? How much of what we take for granted each and every day comes from someplace else, where the cop with the truncheon stands near the worker, and the sea lane is kept open by a Naval battle group?
Every “advanced” society exists as a parasite on those less “advanced,” and that can be proven empirically and decisively. Civilization cannot exist in the absence of war, because civilization is itself inherently exploitative. Los Angeles cannot exist without the water from Colorado. New York cannot exist without the “inputs” from abroad. We know damn well this is true, so we conceal it under pretty abstractions like “free market,” and pretend that the wars required to maintain the power of the powerful are moral failures, anomalies within civilization instead of something as intrinsic as long ears on a rabbit.
Bring us to the point where we will at least admit of this truth; and there is a remote chance that we can figure out some tentative first steps how to stop the runaway train… that is, in the end, to change everything.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmRachel,
Remember? Don’t put the same comment on every thread, ok?
March 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pmokay zooey,
Sorry I truly forgot.
This is really embarassing.
I am really sorry.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:36 pmNice post anyways Rachel. Well written indeed.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:45 pmLet’s see,after we have killed their parents and grandparents with shock and Awe bombs,destroyed their ability to live peacefully among themselves,tortured , rape their women and chilrden.They are going to look up to us and the lone Muslim congressman we have?
March 6th, 2007 at 4:47 pmYeah! Well I have some beach front property in ArizonaI can sell ya.
Sorry I truly forgot.
This is really embarassing.
I am really sorry.
Comment by rachel kinnardi
No worries, rachel. Take care.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:50 pmBring the Islamist a box of cigars.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pmHi Patrick, it’s Spungebob.
March 6th, 2007 at 8:33 pmYou GO, Keith Ellison! SHOW THESE repugnant-repub rightwingnut crank scum WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF AND SMITE THAT fudge-pachyderm G(houlish) O(pportunistic) P(edophile) party WITH YOUR RIGHTEOUS ACTIONS!!!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pmBring the Islamist a box of cigars.
Comment by Patrick1 — March 6, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
We didn’t know you smoked.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:21 pmCongressman Virgil Goode, Ellison’s antagonist, must be steamed right now.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:52 amHooray! Representative Ellison is my House rep — and this is a great thing. Here’s to considering a run for Senate in a few years? And then who knows? “President Ellison” sure sounds good.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pm